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Residential communities in Spain are now allowed to bar individual property owners from using their apartment as a holiday let under new legislation that came into force this month.
I know some people in Barcelona and vicinity who are involved in this. They’re not blaming tourists. They’re blaming predatory landlords who own apartment buildings, evict all the tenants, and convert the whole block into AirBnB properties. They’re mostly not mom-and-pop operations, they’re big holding companies with huge stacks of money behind them.
And the tourism itself can also be a problem. There are lowlife scum stag-party tourists who go to a city to get drunk, buy drugs, pick up prostitutes and get in fights, while there are other tourists who can visit a place without smashing windows, vomiting in the streets and grabbing women’s asses. The stag party phenomenon is especially bad in some Eastern European cities, also in Amsterdam and Barcelona.
Like any business, if tourism is not regulated properly, it’ll have toxic side-effects.
Great. Fuck those people and companies.
Maybe it was
that was chosen for effect. I also remember visiting Portugal and seeing “Fuck off tourists” (or something quite similar, can’t remember) spray painted in multiple places around Lisbon.
100%. Unfettered access to resources is a recipe for disaster.
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