Lived in Bcn and all this tourist hate is ridiculous misdirected anger. Tourists are good for the economy. Now the “tenedores” (people/company owning many properties), the locals that sold to them, lack of regulation/enforcement and opportunity outside the cities, those are bigger issues. But easy populist justification is: iTS tHe tOurIsts 🔫
There’s no single answer to that problem but Spain has around 4 million empty homes.
Lived in Bcn and all this tourist hate is ridiculous misdirected anger. Tourists are good for the economy. Now the “tenedores” (people/company owning many properties), the locals that sold to them, lack of regulation/enforcement and opportunity outside the cities, those are bigger issues. But easy populist justification is: iTS tHe tOurIsts 🔫 There’s no single answer to that problem but Spain has around 4 million empty homes.