PBarcelona Rotesters used water pistols To fulfill tourists who visited Sagradada filyia last month. Mallorca residents are associations posted an Open letter Asking tourists to stay away from the island. More actions are expected by the Canary Islands, Maglaga and anywhere like Spain Braces for another widespread Time to Break.
In the past year, there were almost 100 million visitors to Spaintwice the population. It is not surprised that the industry lies its lips and holds its hands to the hope of more than this year. But we have no stake in selling our self-friendliness for the invasion of a mixture of terror and resentment. For those who come to the end, the mass tourism feels greater than the point it is a form of corporate colonialism.
Here in Barcelona, we have stopped walking to an unexpectedly filled rambla. We avoided the ancient city, and we didn’t bother to go to many beaches in Barceloneta. We cannot return to Vallcarca because public transport overwhelmed by tourists towards Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güellone of the most famous attractions in the city. If a recent and many needed The Park is taking care of In the last month, the council said it hopes to attract tourists. When the area around the dirty stream of beshys cleansed and became a sanctuary of nature, it was entered as a tourist attraction.
This uninterrupted shopping drive leaves residents who feel like the only paper will make it more true. But irony is that more tourists come, the more real Barcelona have been done. Every day the city is less like himself and more like the idea of Barcelona’s marketing department.
Turisme de Barcelona just launches a new campaign under the slogan: This is Barcelona. Many people will replace “the” Other “. While residents and local businesses are expelled, with traditional bars and stores have been substituted in the shoppered rents. more than double In the past five years.
Just as we feel colonized, not the tourists also changed to corporate greed? What new cultural experience originated from Barcelona travel to lead eggs Benedicts in a place called brunch & cake? Why travel abroad to shop Zara or Emporio Armani or eat a taco bell if you can get nearer home?
Or is that people feel comfortable with the familiar with ubiquitous global brands? Maybe it makes them feel more at home, asking the question too, why traveling yet? In the tourist industry it is not an issue. If people keep coming in because they want it. Enough.
Dili kita makakuha og Holer kaysa kanimo, tungod kay wala’y mga pumapalit nga walay mga magbabaligya ug kombinasyon sa mga hotelier, agalong yutaan ug usa ka komplikado nga lokal nga awtoridad nga gibaligya ang lungsod gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil niini gikan sa ilawom sa mga tiil sa mga lungsuranon. As a florist whose family sells flowers in La Rambla since 1888 telling me: “We have lost everything, but we are, we sell it.”
Remove Barcelona Football Club, often delivered as a principal principal Nation: more than one club,, as they want to say. And yet go to a match and you can hear english, french or different other languages say as catalan or spanish. How can it be, if almost all seats own a Season Ticket holder? Because fans sell their tick-day tickets to tourists in a club’s accelerated procedure.
And yes, there are jobs and money: 12% of GDP in Spain, and 14% in Barcelona’sFrom tourism, tens of thousands of jobs, many of them are poorly paid and bad, but jobs. The development riposte of any who complained about feeling overwhelmed by mass tourism is: true, so you want to put thousands of people out of work, are you?
In almost 25 years I live in Barcelona with each other mayor who has promised to control tourism and put quality in quantity. They mean it or not, numbers say for themselves. It’s not about nostalgia. If there is any nostalgia, it’s in the days of 20 years ago when we have a handle 10 million visitors a year, not 30 million.
Everyone has a critical mass and here, as well as places like Seville, Maglaga and Balearic Islands, the feeling is that we have reached it. Thus the increasing number of protests, most of them focus on how tourism has made these areas out of their residents.
Regardless of the solution, the attack of individuals with water pistols is equally worthless and unfair. We all traveled, we were all soldiers of Corporate Colonialism, and before another pandemic or higher plane fare, regional or national, dare to stop the gravy train.
It may be to each of us to think the social and environmental conditions in this uneasy lean, and ask ourselves exactly what we expect in a world where that is how it feels so.
In the musical company by Stephen Sondheim has a duet to go:
Where are you going?
Barcelona.
Do you need it?
Yes, I need it.
Maybe we need to ask ourselves: are we?
