In many countries across Europe, anti-tourist sentiment is growing.
Barcelona locals have sprayed visitors with water guns, and anti-tourism protests in Mexico turned violent.
But tourism holds up the economy of many of these countries, so what has changed to mean it’s no longer welcome? And how can we be better tourists when we go abroad?
BBC News’s Kirsty Grant reports.
00:00 Intro
00:20 What are the cons of tourism?
01:40 What are the pros of tourism?
03:05 Why have anti-tourism protests become more prevalent?
04:30 What are the solutions to overtourism?
04:55 How can we be better tourists?
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oh yea, go to Greenland where no one cares if you visit.
Atleast tourists go home. Try living in a place overun with migrants who dont speak your language, litter in the streets, and harras local woman and girls. UK land!
Please far right wakeup are you will lose europe
Should come to Kenya. We got enough for everyone 😂
Dude you’re an idiot. Vietnamese in Da nang Vietnam are furious at the tourism influx. Foreigners have literally taken over Da nang. You’re glib.
It looks like they taking all of homeboy's internet bandwidth too.
The Spanish government needs to build more homes, simple as.
So rude… 😂😅 then don’t come holidaying in our countries too. Stay in your country forever bet they can’t do that . The people protesting look like teenagers and hooligans that can’t afford to go anywhere.
They’re obviously not thinking of the locals who make a living through tourism industry.
And when nobody goes they cry.
Keep fighting
Worst host, why is she screeching?
It's also the type of tourists as well that they don't like. Nobody wants to live in a party town for instance.
Spain is FULL of not handsome GOOFs😂👎😂😂👎
Americans euro world traitors on humanity, christians terrorist not be encouraged by India action not to go to other countries as tourist?
Too much is too much, it's simple and btw BBC go to hell with your support for Terrorists in Gaza.
oh gosh this is scary😢
Countries set their tourist Visas and quota limits. Tourists are people who are spending their valuable time, money and energy to visit because they already had an appreciation and curiosity about your country. Your response however is to be a total embarrassment for your country and culture by targeting them because you don't even understand your own political system and that it's your own government policies that need to be changed is beyond stupid.
I guess Spain doesn't need a tourism economy 😅
It is INSANE that people think they have the RIGHT to RESTRICT the MOVEMENT of OTHERS! HOUSING should be a RIGHT NOT a LUXURY! FREE STANDARD HOUSING for ALL!!!
The BBC is insanley Biased.
They Covered up the Sex Crimes against Children
Tbe BLM riots were magnitudes more violent yet they said they were "Peaceful"
Yet the peacful protests against Child Rapists were called "Violent"
Leave euroland simple
I blame Instagram and TikTok solely for the influx of 'bragging tourism' – idiots who travel for the sole purpose of taking that iconic photo so they can post it. Before the pandemic people used to travel for travel's sake.
people all over the world blame eachother and not the governments. I will never understand it
Spaniard here, we don' hate tourist and we know its not their fault, most people we don't have time to go to protests but we can't make ends meet… this tourism money goes to very few people, the rest we make 1000€ a month or less after taxes and then we have to pay housing, etc… protest are made for tourist and gouvenment to see we can't take it. But we do not want a tourist country, we want what we had, community and tourist being a part of it, not low salaries and having to smile because we are human
Ungrateful fuks
Tourist (even local tourist), increases the prices in all areas. That is how the money works. And business people love it except ordinary local people.
Ban China, they buy a lot of land and housing properties in foreign land and monopolies the prices. They’re all systematic and that is the dangerous part of it.
Discover tourism in Africa!
Good for them! I can’t stand tourists! Stay in your own damn country🇺🇸
Keep Islam out of Spain
Invest in agriculture
It's not the tourist they should be angry. The tourists don't make the laws in the country. They have no power, it's the governing bodies. It's the people who allow international buyers to spike up the prices.
Have Airbnb removed, problem solved.
It’s a double edged sword: tourism brings in money, but mass tourism ruins the charm of a place.
Spanish people on their way to protest tourists who spend a few weeks in spain and then go home while simultaneously accepting hundreds and thousands of migrants to live permanently in their country LMAOOOOO
This reminded me to trust again.
Do they shoot water pistols at the 300,000 "undocumented immigrants" coming ashore in Spain every year? I'm sure they have nothing at all to do with housing shortages, scarcity of services and other quality of life issues.
hahaha why i never go to Disneyland anymore
So hotels need to start combining rooms into family friendly spacea ie combine 2 rooms or 3 to make family suites and charge more people just want to stay together in the same space not walk down a hallway to visit family in a small hotel room
Nothing to do with tourism you lying scum BBC!
IT is really against the migrants. ITaly sick of the migrants. The spin doctor media recast it.