Travelers in Europe, identify your calendars (and bring your raincoats). On June 8, activist groups across South Europe are planning to protest against tourism. Although the specific form of these protests has not been decided, it is quite safe bet that the water guns will be involved.
Last weekend in Barcelona, about 120 representatives from Venice; Lisbon; Palermo, Italy; And a dozen other cities joined the leaders of the Southern Europe network against tourism, calling for a comprehensive action to call “urgent need to limit tourism”. The tactics discussed include marches, picketing at airports, preventing tourist entry at historic tihasik sites and blocking tour buses.
Managed by increasing rental rental, housing crisis, pollution and public transport, the call signals a continuation – and perhaps a growing – the protests spread across Europe in 2024.
Last July, in a protest by Barcelona’s renowned Las Ramblas Boulevard, a handful of participants pulled the water gun and started tourists. The strategy caught the attention of the global media, which is why, this time around the workers have taken toys as an effective symbol of their resistance.
In Barcelona, where the municipality government has arranged to reduce the impact of overturism (the city received 1.5 million tourists in 2021), such as tourist officials, such as preventing the construction of a new hotel after 2021 and banning AirBNB, welcomed the news of June 7 protests.
Matu Hernandez, director general of the Barcelona Tourism Office, said, “It is unfortunate that the global anti-tourism movements chose to announce their proposals in Barcelona, while Barcelona is the city that works most for sustainable city tourism.”
With the expectation of increasing international travel this year, other demonstrations seem to expand in the summer of 2025. In the meantime, a protest against tourism on May 18, in the Canary Islands, the organizers have suggested that they will move out of March, which are called “symbolic” tourist sites last year.
Participants of the Barcelona Workshop stop their gathering with their own symbolic protests. On Sunday morning, workers, some were operating a water gun, met outside of the Sagrada Familia Church (attraction to the most popular tourist city), surrounded a tour bus filled with passengers and announced a banner on June 7, announced from its windshield.
“We don’t want to hurt anyone,” an English -language teacher and worker from Genoa in Italy said Elena Boshi. “We just want them to be aware of the impact that their presence is on these places and the people in them.”
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