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Barcelona will eliminate ALL tourist apartments in 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire in huge blow for platforms like Airbnb (www.theolivepress.es)

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (3 children)

On one hand, biting that hand that feeds

On the other, I've lived in buildings with AirBnBs and they're a scourge. The owners and renters of short term rental properties are mostly (not all) awful - residents should be owning property, not spoiled rich landlords eating up space for tourists. Fuck AirBnB.

I also visited Spain last month and I've never felt so unwelcomed in my life while in Barcelona and would never go back, so I guess the anti-tourism is working 😂

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

I can understand that locals are revolting around the world. The amount of tourism exploded in the last decades. The way tourists are behaving all around doesn't help.

[–] where_am_i 38 points 2 months ago

Barcelona has 12 tourists per capita per year. They could easily do with a half of that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Barcelona is a diverse economic engine; it’s not a tourism monocrop town. It doesn’t need your patronage.