Tag: overtourism
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Airbnb vs the People
Airbnb – and other short-term rental platforms – have long been under fire for pricing local renters out of city-centres in popular tourist destinations. But Barcelona may emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with a better short-term rental market for all. Trouble on the Horizon According to a Euronews report in 2019, “the city centre’s residential…
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Is Barcelona Ruined by Tourism?
Stephen Burgen argues that Barcelona has been ruined by tourism in a recent Guardian article. You can’t disagree that the queues for the tourist sites can be long. Nor that La Rambla is an overcrowded mess full of tourist tatt stores. Nor that La Boqueria can be difficult to navigate and is increasingly about ‘juice bars…