It never ceases to amaze me how people get get so brainwashed on xenophobia and hating tourists when its their government at fault.
Edit: Well looks like 18 lemmy users didn’t read the news. Locals in barcelonia were literally harassing tourists with water-guns, instead of actually protesting against their government.
Its about the cost of living and lack of affordable housing when companies buy up or build new places just to rent them out on airbnb, that’s why it says it used to be their home. Nothing to do with tourism or xenophobia.
Not gonna visit barcelona any time soon with this toxic attitude.
There was a comment here along the lines of ‘make tourists not want to come and your problem is solved’, maybe they want to be toxic to scare everyone off. If that’s the case, I hope they will find out if it worked the way they wanted
It never ceases to amaze me how people get get so brainwashed on xenophobia and hating tourists when its their government at fault.
Edit: Well looks like 18 lemmy users didn’t read the news. Locals in barcelonia were literally harassing tourists with water-guns, instead of actually protesting against their government.
Its about the cost of living and lack of affordable housing when companies buy up or build new places just to rent them out on airbnb, that’s why it says it used to be their home. Nothing to do with tourism or xenophobia.
Looks like someone didn’t read the news.
Can you link to the news you refer to? I also seem to haven’t read it
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5434829/spain-tourism-protests-water-pistols-barcelona-mallorca
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/travel/barcelona-tourism-protests-scli-intl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-p-YGNXEnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6L4dYVRUw
And to top it all off, “TOURISTS GO HOME” is one of the common slogans they use.
Not gonna visit barcelona any time soon with this toxic attitude.
Thanks
There was a comment here along the lines of ‘make tourists not want to come and your problem is solved’, maybe they want to be toxic to scare everyone off. If that’s the case, I hope they will find out if it worked the way they wanted