Angry stickers telling tourists to ‘go home’ appear on buildings in Malaga
Angry stickers telling tourists to ‘go home’ appear on buildings in Malaga
‘Stinks of tourists’ and ‘a family used to live here’ are among the messages plastered on the walls of tourist apartments
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Yeah tourism has to cool down. Spain, Italy and france are bursting.
Isn't it everywhere? I think this is another strong indicator of how we need new cities that are fostered a little less to generating profit and instead to generating quality value for the people living there. If so, tourism would change automatically.
Oh absolutely and probably also not a hot take. Ban AirBnb and vacation flats in cities. The Prague city centre during covid was a ghost town, because of all the AirBnbs in the city. Regular citizens get priced out and the vacancy rate is high.
I'm not even sure if AirBnb per se is a problem. Depends on the time frame, we're talking about. If they are used for below two weeks they are just better hotels, but as a multiple months accommodation for nomads interested in being part of the city and making meaningful connections - why not?
Oh please, rents were increasing higher than wages for decades now, taking even bigger chunk of the pay of regular people. And Airbnb and Booking in tourist/business hotspots are to blame to a large extent for that.
That's at least an easy explanation, but it totally fails at answering the question as to why it became so much more beneficial to just own money instead of selling work for it in the recent decades. AirBnB has nothing to do with that.
But building new cities is expensive and takes a long time. You can reduce tourism faster.