Spanish local residents are watering visitors in protests against mass tourism – National

Protesters used water pistols towards unsuspecting tourists Barrelona and over Spanish Demonstrators believe that the Island of Mallorca is a housing crisis and their homeland to demand what the economic model again believes in the economic model.

The marches were part of the coordinated efforts of activists related to the best directions of Southern Europe, including Venice, Italy, Portuguese Lisbon and several other places.

“Squirting weapons are to worry a little bit of tourists,” Andreu Martínez, Barcelona talked to Barcelona after a chuckle. “Barcelona was handed over to tourists. This is the struggle to return to Barcelona residents.”

Martinez, a 42-year-old administrative assistant, is one of the number of residents who believed that tourism is far away in the city of 1.7 million people. Barcelona hosted 15.5 million visitors last year Antoni Gaudí’nın La Sagrada Familia Basilica and Las Ramblas Promenade’y wanted to see.

Martinez says the rent rises more than 30%, because the apartment of his neighborhood is rented to tourists to remain short-term. According to him, traditional stores, souvenir shops, burger joints and “foamy tea” spots are replaced by enterprises that provide tourists.

“Our lives are going to the end of Barcelona’s life.” “We are pushing systematically.”

In the capital of Mallorca in Palma, about 5,000 people collected with a little tender water weapons and “you look everywhere, are tourists.” Tourists targeting with water explosions laughed. Balear Island is a favorite for English and German Sun-seekers. Since the short-term rental market saw the costs of the expenses of housing.

Hundreds of more Granada, southern Spain and northly in San Sebastian, as well as on the island of Ibiza.

Several protesters have several protesters, several protesters have stopped a panner that stops new hotel beds in front of two recently completed hotel beds, the latest residents of the recent establishment of the latest residents, an elderly woman began last year.

Protesters in Barcelona were whistle and caught signs prepared at home by saying “another tourist, again resident.” “Civil self-defense” saying “Civil self-defense” saying, “Go to the tourist house”, hotels and water pistols in hotels and dormitories “Go home”.

When a large dormitory stands in front of a hostel, there was tension in the entrance to the two employees in the entrance, where the water weapons were vacated. Also, next to the dormitory, they set up the fire grass and opened a box of pink smoke. Because Hostel fluttered its doors, an employee spat on protesters.

American tourists Wanda and Bill Dorozenski walked along the main luxury shopping boulevard in Barcelona. They received a squirt or two people, but this was 7 degree Fahrenheit (28.3 degrees Celsius), he said in fact renewed.

“It’s lovely, thank you girlfriend,” said Wanda said. “I do not intend to complain. These people feel that they are very personal and maybe destroy some areas (city).”

There were many marches with water pistols that do not burn the Jews, and instead they just used them to spray themselves to keep cool.

The cities in the world are struggling with mass tourism and fired Squirt weapons in short-term rental platforms, but in virtues in tourists in the first summer of Barcelona.

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In 2024, the 94 million residents of 48 million inhabitants of Spain, 38 million inhabitants of Spain, had an anti-Spain fight against housing and tourism.

Spanish officials try to show that they are screaming in an industry that makes up a 12% of the gross domestic product.

Last month, the Spanish government said that Airbnb violated almost 66,000 holiday rentals from the platform violating local rules.

Spanish Minister of Consumer Pablo Bustinduy, after each other in Airbnb, the Associated Press, which increased the rights of housing and welfare, “he said,” he said, “he said. Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said in a separate meeting, the government knows that mass tourism should solve the unwanted side effects.

The most daring action, the tourists announced the 10,000 short-term rental licenses in the city by 2028 and were developed by other services to Barcelona, ​​which helped tourists’ city hall and rent.

This feeling, on Sunday, people’s “Airbnb was my house” came into effect on Sunday.

The short-term rental industry believes in turn, unfairly.

“I think that many of our politicians have found an easy to blame the effectiveness of the effectiveness of housing and tourism policy in the last 10, 15, 20,” said Santiague, Prison and Portugal Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago recently told AP.

This argument does not cause either Barcelona’s ordinary residents or resonance.

Txema Escorsa, a teacher in Barcelona, ​​not only in the city in his house, he stopped using it in another place, while traveling in another place.

“In the end, you understand that this is buying housing from people,” he said.

AP VideoJournalist Hernan Múnosis and Associated Press writer Colleen Barry, Venice, Italy, contributed to Barcelona.