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Some have taken extreme measures to make their voices heard, with locals demonstrating against excessive tourism in the Spanish Canary Islands calling for a hunger strike back in April.
In July 2024, there was a protest in Barcelona of about 3,000 people. Some of the protestors used tape to seal hotel exits, and cordon-off restaurants and other tourist services in public squares, and some sprayed tourists with water guns, which the Spanish tourism minister criticised.
A resident said the current tourism model has made the city a ‘soulless theme park’ Spanish protests against ‘suffocating’ overtourism spill into San Sebastian Skip to main content
Tourism became a harbinger of problems this year that were long in the making. But 2025 could “mark a new dawn” for the industry. Tourism has become a dirty word.
Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near Da Nang, 1968.. Interrogational torture is the use of torture to obtain information in interrogation, as opposed to the use of torture to extract a forced confession, regardless of whether it is true or false.
Tourism in Spain is a major contributor to national economic life, with foreign and domestic tourism contributing to 12.3% of Spain's GDP (in 2023). [1] The international tourist expenditure in 2024 was around 126 billion euros. [2] Since 1959, the tourism industry has become one of the key sectors of the Spanish economy. [3]
Around 50,000 people took part in the protest on Sunday, which began at around 7 p.m. local time time (1 p.m. ET) according to organizers Menys Turisme, Mas Vida (Less Tourism, More Life ...
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a system of measurement recognized by the United Nations to define the extent of an economic sector that is not so easily defined as industries like forestry or oil and gas [16] Tourism does not fit neatly into a statistical model; because it is not so much dependent ...