For some time, now, the inhabitants from high-profile vacationer facilities have been feeling the stress of mass arrivals of holiday makers.
This out-of-control inflow has a detrimental impact on the locals’ high quality of life, inflicting housing shortages, value hikes and air pollution points.
So a motion in opposition to this actuality has taken maintain of southern European nations, to the purpose the place the activists have established a world coalition to sort out overtourism.
Right now (16), 1000’s of individuals took to the streets of cities in southern European nations to show in opposition to overtourism, at instances firing water pistols at retailers and setting off smoke.
Reuters reported:
“’Your holidays, my distress’, protesters chanted within the streets of Barcelona whereas holding up banners emblazoned with slogans corresponding to ‘mass tourism kills the town’ and ‘their greed brings us spoil’.
Below the umbrella of the SET alliance – Sud d’Europa contra la Turistització, or Catalan for ‘Southern Europe in opposition to Overtourism’ – protesters joined forces with teams in Portugal and Italy, arguing that uncontrolled tourism was sending housing costs hovering and forcing individuals out of their neighborhoods.”
Take Barcelona, for instance: a metropolis of 1.6 million that pulls 26 million vacationers per 12 months – not sustainable.
“Authorities within the north japanese Spanish metropolis mentioned round 600 individuals joined the demonstration there, some firing water pistols or setting off coloured smoke and placing stickers saying ‘Neighborhood self-defense, vacationer go dwelling’ on store home windows and inns.”
“There have been related demonstrations in different components of Spain together with Ibiza, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, San Sebastian and Granada. Protests in Italy passed off in cities together with Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Milan and Venice, the place locals oppose the development of two inns that can add round 1,500 new beds to the town, the organizers instructed Reuters.”
|| New protests erupt in Spain in opposition to overtourism.
➔ The “Southern Europe in opposition to Overtourism” alliance leads the cost.
➔ Demonstrators collaborate with teams from Portugal and Italy for a united stand.Voices rise throughout Southern Europe! #Overtourism #Spain… pic.twitter.com/mrNm6ucOya
— Thomas MORE (@ThomaMore) June 15, 2025
“Worldwide journey spending in Europe is predicted to rise by 11% to $838 billion this 12 months, with Spain and France among the many nations set to obtain report numbers of vacationers.”
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