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Today in Focus

Why Spain wants tourists to go home

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For decades, Spain has been the destination of choice for Brits desperate for sun, sea and sand. But now there is a growing backlash against tourism. What went wrong? Sam Jones reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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narrow streets, a lot of shops, local shops, a lot of neighbors, very high density of population. A lot of children of different origins, a lot of immigration to a neighborhood with a lot of immigration to neighborhood with a lot of life, community life.

1:17.2

Marty Kuso lives somewhere you may well have gone on holiday.

1:20.8

Almost 26 million people visited Barcelona last year to see the

1:25.3

Sagrada familiar to watch flamenco shows and to visit the Gothic quarter in the

1:30.4

city center where Marty grew up. The architecture there is amazing and the bars and restaurants are always packed.

1:39.0

It's been a touristy area for decades, but about 15 years ago, people who live in the neighborhood

1:45.8

started to notice a change.

1:49.4

Strangers were coming and going from apartment blocks.

1:51.8

They were letting themselves in with keys that were left in

1:54.1

padlock boxes.

1:55.8

Many people started to have a lot of problems in their buildings produced by touristic

2:00.4

flats, touristic apartments, parties, noise, and of course to see different neighbors

2:06.3

every week, two or three times, different people that come here for holidays, they don't have any

2:11.0

care about the building because it's not their home.

2:14.0

These tourists weren't staying in hotels.

2:16.0

They were using what were then new holiday rental sites like AirB&B.

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