{"id":133323,"date":"2024-08-28T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/southern-europe-is-sick-of-tourists\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:00:21","slug":"southern-europe-is-sick-of-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/southern-europe-is-sick-of-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Europe is sick of tourists"},"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\/133323\" \/>\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>Water scarcity, overcrowded streets and rising housing costs are infuriating locals. While the Covid-19 pandemic provided a welcome respite to many locals from the hoards of travelers flying in, troublesome tourists are once again getting on their nerves. So much so, that locals and activists have been hitting the streets in various cities across Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, some armed with water guns and stickers telling rowdy visitors to go home.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors say over-tourism drives up housing prices, accelerates gentrification and makes already-stretched water supplies more scarce. In drought-stricken urban centers like Barcelona, tourists consume considerably more water than the average resident. In parched Sicily, a number of cities have started to turn away tourists due to water scarcity. Governments, for their part, are less inclined to implement durable measures. For many EU countries, especially those in southern Europe, tourism is a key pillar of their economy: 11.3 percent for Croatia, and between 6 and 8 percent for Portugal, Greece, Spain and Italy, according to an analysis by Allianz.<\/p>\n<p>After the pandemic all but halted tourism for two years, people eager to travel embarked on so-called \u201crevenge tourism&#8221; \u2014 reaping back the trips they had missed out on. In part due to tourism, Spain, Portugal, and Greece \u2014 long the laggards among Europe\u2019s big economies \u2014 outperformed the rest of the EU in 2023. While GDP across the bloc rose at 0.5 percent, the economies of Portugal, Greece and Spain all posted rates above 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors say over-tourism drives up housing prices. | Jamie Reina\/Getty Images<br \/>\n\u201cWhat we are seeing in the media is what we started to see even before the pandemic,&#8221; Sandra Carv\u00e3o, director of market intelligence, policies and competitiveness at the United Nations&#8217; tourism agency told POLITICO. &#8220;Already then, we saw a movement and protests against tourism in destinations, and we see them returning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of July, around 20,000 anti-tourism activists gathered in Palma de Mallorca, demanding a change to a tourism model they say is harming Balearic Islands, whose main three isles are Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza. In 2023, the total number of tourists on the islands rose to 14.4 million \u2014 an overwhelming amount for the islands that have a year-round total population of around 1.2 million residents.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/southern-europe-sick-tourists-sustainability-housing-water\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/southern-europe-sick-tourists-sustainability-housing-water\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/trumps-edge-over-harris-on-economy-crime-slips-reuters-ipsos-poll-finds-2\/\">Southern Europe is sick of tourists<\/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":[15872,15873,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-sick-of-tourists","tag-southern-europe","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133323","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=133323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}