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Foreigners out - was the cry in Catalan from anti tourism protestors.

I wonder how many of them have ever travelled overseas... on holiday?

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Might get a different reaction once the hooligans turn up mob handed. Personally I shall avoid all those places who don’t want us and encourage everybody else to do the same. Once their local economy tanks they will have a different take on it as will the barmen, waiters and chamber maids.
 
They're also protesting about excessive tourism on the Canary Islands, too, i think, pushing up rents for local people and making life difficult with coachloads of boozed up Brits barfing all over the beaches. Fiji has seen its fair share of protests about this as well. Too many folk on too little land.
 
My wife's village in italy is a shambolic collection of bats, restaurants and shops selling BS to the thousands of turists flooding the place.
Prices go up 500% at least until October when the 500 residents wave goodbye to the last tourists and everything shuts down.
I used to love the place, but now I can't stand it in summer.
Problem is now that rich tourists are buying properties and pushing prices up.
Shame because the place is fantastic when everyone is gone.
 
motorbiking said:
I wonder how many of them have ever travelled overseas... on holiday?
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I do too. However I don't ever remember seeing the headline..."boozed up Spanish yobs invade Barmouth..." or some such. Perhaps they go about their business more quietly when on holiday, dunno? Seems your average Brit moron doesn't know the difference between a footie match or a holiday?

It's an odd phenomenon, but when the average Brit moron goes abroad, it's like they've never drunk alcohol before. You can spot them in abundance at Wetherspoons in Brum airport, happily supping beer at 5:00am. This continues, unabated on the aircraft. Then once they get to the all inclusive dump, disbelief turns to astonishment, once they realise they can drink as much booze as they like. Later, you will find them unconscious with vomit stuck to their face, sleeping it off on a bench or the grass verge in front of the hotel.
I'm sure Spanish hospitals love British tourists.
 
noseall said:
I do too. However I don't ever remember seeing the headline..."boozed up Spanish yobs invade Barmouth..." or some such. Perhaps they go about their business more quietly when on holiday, dunno? Seems your average Brit moron doesn't know the difference between a footie match or a holiday?

It's an odd phenomenon, but when the average Brit moron goes abroad, it's like they've never drunk alcohol before. You can spot them in abundance at Wetherspoons in Brum airport, happily supping beer at 5:00am. This continues, unabated on the aircraft. Then once they get to the all inclusive dump, disbelief turns to astonishment, once they realise they can drink as much booze as they like. Later, you will find them unconscious with vomit stuck to their face, sleeping it off on a bench or the grass verge in front of the hotel.
I'm sure Spanish hospitals love British tourists.
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No doubt blaming the food for their poorly tum...

But this is about protesting against all tourists.. Not specifically UK tourists.
 
motorbiking said:
Foreigners out - was the cry in Catalan from anti tourism protestors.

I wonder how many of them have ever travelled overseas... on holiday?

skynews-barcelona-spain-tourism_6621022.jpg
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Its easier to target the end users rather than the air b’nb investors. The issue isn't about going on holiday, its about affordable housing for locals who are being priced out of the market by foreigners. Sounds like a familiar brexxer argument. Haven't been to barcelona but those i know who have say it has become distinctly less friendly in recent years. They don't realise were british, everyone else is a foreigner.
 
The issue is about holiday makers; specifically their number and how resources are taken up by the incomers during the summer season. Too many people are taking up a limited space and many places are charging them for visits to particular sights, as they are in Venice. Authorities in Seville are considering a levy for visitors to the Plaza de España and recently the sightseers to Mt Fuji have been charged to go up the steep slopes and their number limited due to safety concerns.
 
Barcelona has been a cesspit of crime for decades. Who'd have thought that living in a popular city would be expensive.

I know our new government are flirting with the idea of first dibs for locals on houses, but it begs the question of fairness. Why should I get first dibs on a lovely property in a beautiful location, just because I was lucky enough to be born there? Why should the person who owns the property be forced to sell it below market value to me for this reason? Surely every citizen should have an equal right to buy.
 
motorbiking said:
Barcelona has been a cesspit of crime for decades. Who'd have thought that living in a popular city would be expensive.
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That begs the question of whether and how to regulate market forces, to provide decent housing for local people
motorbiking said:
I know our new government are flirting with the idea of first dibs for locals on houses, but it begs the question of fairness.
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Local needs clauses are commonplace in planning conditions for consented housing typically in villages, its often the price of permission. They've been around for decades.
motorbiking said:
Why should I get first dibs on a lovely property in a beautiful location, just because I was lucky enough to be born there? Why should the person who owns the property be forced to sell it below market value to me for this reason? Surely every citizen should have an equal right to buy.
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The government wont force the sale, there will be provisions that allow for sale to non locals if there are no takers. Ironically that could create the very delay the government are pledged to avoid. its why a massive increase in affordable housing for local authority rent is needed
 
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