Protesters in Spain are hitting water weapons in tourists in the demonstration against mass tourism and housing expenditures

Residents in Spain and protested against several other popular destinations in Europe Mass tourism On Sunday, the flood of summer visitors manages housing expenses in their cities and pushes local residents.

Some protesters on the island of Mallorca in Barcelona and Spain were spraying tourists with water weapons.

Protests were part of the first coordinated efforts of activists related to abrasions along the best directions of South Europe. Several thousand Mallorca in the world’s largest gathering, several thousand, in other cities of Spain, as well as in other Spanish cities, as well as in the capital of Venice, Italy and Portuguese, Lisbon.

“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. Skyroygroyged housing costs as it is directed to the short-term rental market.

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, “Tourist Home” by the construction of a water weapon in the English “Tourist House” in English.

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 Wanda, 83 degrees Fahrenheit said in fact renewed.

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

There were also many marchers that did not fire on the Jews and replaced themselves to keep them cool instead.

The world cities have been able to cope with mass tourism and short-term rental platforms, but perhaps no place is in Spain Protesters in Barcelona Prior to the previous summer, during the protest, he fired in the tourists.

In 2024, 48 million residents were recorded in Spain and anti-tourism fighting in Spain, which received a record 94 million international visitors.

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

Spanish government last month Ordered AirbnB to remove approximately 66,000 holiday rentals He said he violated local rules from the platform.

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 something easy to blame for the effectiveness of housing and tourism policy in the last 10, 15, 20,” Director General Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago for Spain and Portugal and Portugal.

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.

In another strategy, Barcelona’s leaders have launched a program last year Replace obsolete infrastructure in public schools To solve the rising temperature paid by taxes to tourists.

“The opportunity to use these income taxes, such a project, so that we cannot accept tourism and tourism in our city, CBS reported that the Mayian Major Bonet said.

However, some residents say the program misses the point.

“The government must do it without dependent on tourism … This is the public health,” he said. Acta Agnes Rodriguez. “If you come to Barcelona, ​​Chicago or New York in the evening and stay in a tourist apartment in a family, you are part of a part of this city. You influence the lives of people living there.”