{"id":132245,"date":"2024-07-09T07:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/barcelona-protesters-spray-visitors-with-water-why-has-europe-fallen-out-of-love-with-tourism\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T07:35:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:35:51","slug":"barcelona-protesters-spray-visitors-with-water-why-has-europe-fallen-out-of-love-with-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/barcelona-protesters-spray-visitors-with-water-why-has-europe-fallen-out-of-love-with-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona protesters spray visitors with water: Why has Europe fallen out of love with tourism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132245\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Overtourism is putting pressure on health services, waste management, water supplies and housing at the expense of residents.Thousands of Barcelona residents have taken to the streets to protest overtourism. Around 3,000 people from over 140 organisations took to the streets of the Spanish city on Saturday afternoon, spraying tourists with water and shouting &#8220;tourists go home&#8221;. Hotel and restaurant entrances were symbolically closed off. They are calling for action before a summer season that experts say will set new records in the city and the wider region of Catalonia. Barcelona is Spain&#8217;s most visited city receiving 12 million people a year, many of whom arrive via cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>Rising visitor numbers are putting pressure on health services, waste management, water supplies and housing at the expense of residents. Increased construction of hotel and housing developments is endangering historic sites, biodiversity and natural resources. The city council has recently voted in favour of increasing its tourism tax up to \u20ac4 per person from October. Recently, frustrations have boiled over in several other European honeypot destinations compelling local authorities to address and reassess the relationship between tourists and residents. From outspoken graffiti to hunger strikes, here\u2019s how destinations suffering from overtourism are pushing back.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most pressing impacts of overtourism in Spain now is the lack of housing and soaring rent prices for residents. M\u00e1laga locals expressed their frustration earlier this year by plastering the centre of the Spanish city with stickers on walls and doors, telling visitors what residents think of them. They range from the fairly mild \u201cthis used to be my home\u201d (antes esta era mi casa) and \u201cthis used to be the city centre\u201d (antes esto era el centro) all the way to \u201cgo f*cking home\u201d (a tu puta casa), \u201cstinking of tourist\u201d (apestando a turista).<\/p>\n<p>The city on the Costa del Sol has long been a popular destination for foreign visitors, thanks to its sunny climate and relatively low cost of living. But with digital nomads now also piling in, the housing situation has become critical. The \u2018sticker initiative\u2019 was started by bar owner Dani Drunko. Speaking to a local newspaper Diario Sur, Drunko explained that he began the campaign after he was \u201ckicked out\u201d of the home he\u2019d lived in for a decade. He claimed that the landlord refused to negotiate the rent or even sell him the property because he wanted to turn it into a short-term rental for tourists.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/07\/08\/fake-signs-and-hunger-strikes-whats-behind-europes-backlash-against-overtourism\">Read more&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/07\/08\/fake-signs-and-hunger-strikes-whats-behind-europes-backlash-against-overtourism\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/barcelona-protesters-spray-visitors-with-water-why-has-europe-fallen-out-of-love-with-tourism\/\">Barcelona protesters spray visitors with water: Why has Europe fallen out of love with tourism?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4450,555,563,1305],"class_list":["post-132245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-csr-news-en","tag-protest","tag-tourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}