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Take Venice, for example. This year, it launched a €5-a-day fee for day-trippers, which will extend into 2025 . In short, tourism will never be the same again.
Touristification is a process by which a place changes as it becomes an object of tourist consumption. [1] It leads to negative implications for the touristified place and has received both informal and formal opposition.
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]
And most recently, thousands protested in the Spanish island of Mallorca, with organizers claiming the island’s tourism model “impoverishes workers and enriches only a few.” Overtourism backlash
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 ...
Under the banner “We are in danger; degrow tourism!”, groups in the Basque city marched through the historic centre to protest against the current tourism model and increasing rental prices ...
The principal lubricants of the economic expansion, however, were the hard currency remittances of one million Spanish workers abroad, which are estimated to have offset 17.9% of the total trade deficit from 1962 to 1971; the gigantic increase in tourism that drew more than 20 million visitors per year by the end of the 1960s, accounting by ...
The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire (now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs. Arts flourished despite the decline of the empire in the 17th century.