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Your problem isn’t tourists. Tourists bring money into your businesses and create jobs for your economy. The problem is shit like AirBnB, no empty housing tax, and no incentives to build new housing. Point those water pistols at your policymakers and get your housing laws changed.
Yeah I mean I sympathize with people protesting (over-)tourism but it always feels weird when you’re visiting some kind of small village with “Tourist go home” banners hanging from the balconies, meanwhile tourism is obviously the only thing bringing money into the community. Idk.
The problem everybody complains is not tourism but mass tourism, I completely understand it, but it’s up to the locals to fix the over demand
It’s not just Airbnb and the likes. Restaurants become more expensive. Shops change to accommodate the needs of people who don’t live there.
Additionally, it creates mostly low qualification jobs and the profits go to large chains who own restaurants, hotels, etc.
So woke Airbnb is a plague, it’s not just that.
A city without locals becomes a theme park. Is this the tourists fault? No.
Now to fix this one needs local action with local authorities, limit short term rentals, tax them higher when empty and do like parisians, these taxes go to subsidies on local craftsman and people who give life to the city to live within the city.
“The squirt guns are to bother the tourists a bit,” Andreu Martínez said with a chuckle after spritzing a couple seated at an outdoor cafe. “Barcelona has been handed to the tourists. This is a fight to give Barcelona back to its residents.”
Martínez says his rent has risen over 30% as more apartments in his neighborhood are rented to tourists for short-term stays. He said there is a knock-on effect of traditional stores being replaced by businesses catering to tourists, like souvenir shops, burger joints and “bubble tea” spots.
“Our lives, as lifelong residents of Barcelona, is coming to an end,” he said. “We are being pushed out systematically.”
They have a point. People may dismiss this as “xenophobia” but I see it more as a matter of class divisions where rich tourists are prioritised over lower class residents.
In the US police would probably fire back with real guns, or charge them with domestic terrorism. To be fair, we do have a lot of cunts in this country that would load the guns up with acid, piss, or American beer - but I repeat myself.
Yup. If you’ve ever lived in or near a tourist destination then you can probably understand why these people are upset.
People are getting ousted from their homes (usually gradually but sometimes abruptly too) in favour of people that don’t even live there. It may be as small as a tourist trap displacing a local neighbourhood or as big as short-term rentals and a tourism economy pushing out the lower classes in an entire city.
Honestly fuck these people. They should ban all of these cunts harassing tourists from ever leaving their city. If they’re so against tourism, then they shouldn’t be allowed to be tourists themselves.
If they have a problem with housing go attack politicians and the rich fucks who abuse the system and make the policies, not the tourists who probably have no idea what’s going on and are just there visiting.
I have never understood the concept of paying loads of money to go somewhere chock full of other people on my precious spare time. So, they want no tourists? Alright then, I’ll support their cause by continuing with my policy of spending my vacations around home.
