{"id":132523,"date":"2024-07-22T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/barcelona-plans-to-raise-tourist-tax-for-cruise-passengers-visiting-for-few-hours\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:40:54","slug":"barcelona-plans-to-raise-tourist-tax-for-cruise-passengers-visiting-for-few-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/barcelona-plans-to-raise-tourist-tax-for-cruise-passengers-visiting-for-few-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona plans to raise tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting for few hours"},"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\/132523\" \/>\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>Move targeting those in city for less than 12 hours is latest measure from mayor to tackle effects of mass tourism. Barcelona\u2019s mayor plans to raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers who visit the city for less than 12 hours as part of his continuing efforts to \u201ctackle the consequences of mass tourism\u201d in the Catalan capital. Jaume Collboni, a member of the Catalan Socialist party, has announced a series of measures designed to reduce overtourism and improve the city\u2019s housing situation since taking office last year.<\/p>\n<p>Four weeks ago, Collboni said he would end apartment rentals to tourists by 2028 by scrapping the licences of the 10,101 apartments currently approved as short-term rentals. There have been huge protests across Spain against the damaging effect that the booming tourist industry is having on people\u2019s daily lives.In an interview with El Pa\u00eds on Sunday, the mayor said he would seek to raise the tax paid by cruise passengers, which is now \u20ac7 (\u00a36) a day, to ensure the city profited properly from their brief visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarcelona is a city that\u2019s open to visitors and tourism is an important sector of its economy,\u201d Collboni told the newspaper. \u201cThat said, I\u2019m determined to tackle the consequences that mass tourism is having for the city. That means going all the way with the ban on tourist flats in 2028. But we\u2019re also going to \u2026 substantially raise the tax for people on cruise stopovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said tourist flat rentals and short cruise stopovers were causing problems for the city and for its pursuit of quality tourism. \u201cWhen it comes to a choice between tourists using housing and the right to housing, we\u2019ve decided to put the right to housing in Barcelona first,\u201d Collboni said. \u201cWhen it comes to stopover cruise passengers \u2013 less than 12 hours \u2013 you get an intensive use of public space without any benefit to the city and you get a feeling of occupation and saturation. We want a tourism that respects its destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor did not say by how much he was planning to raise the tax, saying only that studies had already been commissioned. Collboni added that the idea of the rise was not to deter cruise visitors but to ensure they paid their way and generated revenue that could be invested in projects such as installing air conditioning in schools.He said his ban on tourist flats would not put off visitors and that the city and the surrounding area had sufficient hotel capacity to keep hosting large annual events such as the Mobile World Congress. Last year Spain, which has a population of 47 million people, received a record 85.1 million international tourists, up 19% on 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/21\/barcelona-plans-raise-tourist-tax-cruise-passengers-few-hours\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/21\/barcelona-plans-raise-tourist-tax-cruise-passengers-few-hours\"> The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/barcelona-plans-to-raise-tourist-tax-for-cruise-passengers-visiting-for-few-hours\/\">Barcelona plans to raise tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting for few hours<\/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":[4450,555,15371],"class_list":["post-132523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-csr-news-en","tag-tourist-tax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132523","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=132523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}