{"id":136199,"date":"2024-12-23T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/from-street-protests-to-an-airbnb-ban-all-the-ways-barcelona-said-no-to-tourists-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:10:50","slug":"from-street-protests-to-an-airbnb-ban-all-the-ways-barcelona-said-no-to-tourists-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/from-street-protests-to-an-airbnb-ban-all-the-ways-barcelona-said-no-to-tourists-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"From street protests to an Airbnb ban, all the ways Barcelona said no to tourists in 2024"},"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\/136199\" \/>\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>Spain,AirbnbSpain\u2019s most visited city is seeking quality over quantity in 2025. The writing was on the wall &#8211; literally. Last year, graffiti appeared in Barcelona telling tourists, \u201cWe spit in your beer. Cheers!\u201d Another message read: \u201cYour luxury trip &#8211; my daily misery\u201d. But in 2024 the Spanish city\u2019s pushback against overtourism reached new heights.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 15 million tourists visiting Barcelona every year &#8211; drawn by its stunning blend of art and architecture, top-tier football team, and beachside location &#8211; locals are feeling the strain. It\u2019s not the only place in Europe calling timeout on too many tourists. Italy, for example, is also dealing with the \u2018plague\u2019 of overtourism, and cruise ships are facing new restrictions at many ports.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona has not actually granted new licences since 2014 when it froze supply at nearly 10,000 units. But that hasn\u2019t fixed the issue of unaffordable rent for locals. &#8221;We want to guarantee the right to live in Barcelona and deal effectively with the housing crisis we have been suffering for years,&#8221; said mayor Jaume Collboni. The tourism industry hit back, naturally. The Barcelona Association of Tourist Apartments (APARTUR) says these Airbnb-style apartments only make up a fraction of the city&#8217;s housing. It warns that restricting licences could increase the number of illegal apartments and potentially cause 40 per cent of the city&#8217;s tourism to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>There are ongoing legal challenges over the plan. The European Holiday Home Association filed a complaint with the European Commission (EC) in November, claiming it breaches the provision of services directive &#8211; something the EC has questioned itself. The overtourism debate got particularly heated in July, when around 3,000 people took to the streets, shouting &#8221;tourists go home&#8221; and spraying them with water.<\/p>\n<p>Some 150 collectives, organisations and social movements were involved in the demonstration, which followed similar actions in the Canary Islands and Mallorca. Hotel and restaurant entrances were also symbolically closed off. &#8221;We want the city&#8217;s economic model to prioritise other much fairer economies. And for that, we consider that we have to decrease tourism,\u201d explained Mart\u00ed Cus\u00f3, spokesperson for the Association of Neighbours of the Gothic Quarter and an activist against tourist overcrowding. Further protests against high rents in November &#8211; though less specifically targeted at tourists &#8211; also identified overtourism as a driver.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/23\/from-street-protests-to-an-airbnb-ban-all-the-ways-barcelona-said-no-to-tourists-in-2024\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/23\/from-street-protests-to-an-airbnb-ban-all-the-ways-barcelona-said-no-to-tourists-in-2024\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/from-street-protests-to-an-airbnb-ban-all-the-ways-barcelona-said-no-to-tourists-in-2024\/\">From street protests to an Airbnb ban, all the ways Barcelona said no to tourists in 2024<\/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":[451,4450,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air","tag-barcelona","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\/136199","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=136199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}