One out of every four new jobs created in the Spanish economy is linked to tourism. The number of workers employed in the tourism sector reached 2.86 million in the second quarter of 2023, 6.3 % more than in 2019, and there were more than 3.1 million active workers
Ok, I’m just curious – where will they do money? There are any factories in Barcelona? Or what source I can’t see? I’m totally understand their position, but I don’t know enough how they can live. Any stocks markets there or Silicon Valley? How?
It’s the now common I don’t want anything happening here no jobs no construction and when everything is gone o complain again that all the youth is leaving and no one takes care of them …
Put it city tax to make their lives better put in an air bnb ban that’s what really helps
2800 people isn’t many.
*2029: Barcellona residents protest against the government or whatever for the death of the tourism industry.*
Yeah I buy that.. tourism is a plague for locals.
Makes sense but you need to be pragmatic. Spain still benefits massively from tourism, the failures of the Spanish State to house people and build infrastructure are deflected onto the tourists. Spain will be far worse without the tourists.
First, use tourist revenues to build more houses and hotels. Second, encourage tourism away from hotspots like Barcelona to quieter locations.
Do they realize that it’s solely the local Catalonian landlords fault that the rent prices have exponentially increased? Not even the “vulture funds”, which barely make a dent. The local landlords always use the current excuses too to increase their profit margins. “Precios anti crisis” was the slogan in 2010s, “el COVID” starting in 2020, and now “the British tourists” or whatever. It’s all a massive cop out. Get the city authorities to build more and/or more social housing to fix the problem, and/or implement city and tourist taxes, and stop biting the hand that feeds you.
Tldr. It’s the local landlords fault. Yes, it’s uncle Jordi and aunt Antonia’s fault. Not Joe Smith from Northumbria, who drinks like a fish. In b4 “supply and demand” cope.
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One out of every four new jobs created in the Spanish economy is linked to tourism. The number of workers employed in the tourism sector reached 2.86 million in the second quarter of 2023, 6.3 % more than in 2019, and there were more than 3.1 million active workers
Ok, I’m just curious – where will they do money? There are any factories in Barcelona? Or what source I can’t see? I’m totally understand their position, but I don’t know enough how they can live. Any stocks markets there or Silicon Valley? How?
It’s the now common I don’t want anything happening here no jobs no construction and when everything is gone o complain again that all the youth is leaving and no one takes care of them …
Put it city tax to make their lives better put in an air bnb ban that’s what really helps
2800 people isn’t many.
*2029: Barcellona residents protest against the government or whatever for the death of the tourism industry.*
Yeah I buy that.. tourism is a plague for locals.
Makes sense but you need to be pragmatic. Spain still benefits massively from tourism, the failures of the Spanish State to house people and build infrastructure are deflected onto the tourists. Spain will be far worse without the tourists.
First, use tourist revenues to build more houses and hotels. Second, encourage tourism away from hotspots like Barcelona to quieter locations.
Do they realize that it’s solely the local Catalonian landlords fault that the rent prices have exponentially increased? Not even the “vulture funds”, which barely make a dent. The local landlords always use the current excuses too to increase their profit margins. “Precios anti crisis” was the slogan in 2010s, “el COVID” starting in 2020, and now “the British tourists” or whatever. It’s all a massive cop out. Get the city authorities to build more and/or more social housing to fix the problem, and/or implement city and tourist taxes, and stop biting the hand that feeds you.
Tldr. It’s the local landlords fault. Yes, it’s uncle Jordi and aunt Antonia’s fault. Not Joe Smith from Northumbria, who drinks like a fish. In b4 “supply and demand” cope.
All the pickpockets are enough to put me off.