Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism.

Demonstrators marching through areas popular with tourists on Saturday chanted “tourists go home” and squirted them with water pistols, while others carried signs with slogans including “Barcelona is not for sale.”

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the city in the latest demonstration against mass tourism in Spain, which has seen similar actions in the Canary Islands and Mallorca recently, decrying the impact on living costs and quality of life for local people.

The demonstration was organised by a group of more than 100 local organizations, led by the Assemblea de Barris pel Decreixement Turístic (Neighborhood Assembly for Tourism Degrowth).

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    "…profits from the tourism industry are unfairly distributed and increase social inequality. "

    It sounds like the real problem isn’t the actual tourists.

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      4 months ago

      Who should I blame today for our problems, tourists or immigrants?

      Choose one (and please ignore the capitalist elite actually causing these problems)