Anti-tourist protests turn ugly in Spain holiday hotspot | World | News

When the hotel staff in Barcelona turned ugly when a show in the Catalan capital returned, it was forced to face anti-Turist protesters after throwing an orange glare into the reception area. The staff in the generator Barcelona, ​​a design hotel-hostel near Moda Paseo de Gracia, had to intervene and shouted to get away from the protesters.

The demonstrators were besieged the hotel and holding banners that claimed that tourism had priced and robbed their future. In addition, while walking through the streets of the city, non -suspicious holidaymakers targeted with a water gun.

Activists “tourists go home” and “a tourist, a less local” and “this tourism terrorism shouted.

Police took steps to stop the city’s famous Sagrada Familia and to avoid conflicts between demonstrators and tourists visiting the Gaudi turning point.

Authorities are expected to support an anti -mass tourism rally on Sunday, then at Mayorcan Capital Palma.

Another march took place on Sunday, as part of a series of coordinated street protests in Southern Europe, as part of a series of street protests coordinated against problems that say the causes of mass tourism of activists.

The protests await great participation in the organizers on Palma and say that more than 90 organizations have registered.

They argue that mass tourism has a serious environmental impact and leads to an increase in housing prices, rents and living costs.

The activists accuse the PP-VOX (right and radical right) coalition of “maintaining a destructive political agenda that serves speculative and tourism market interests, and completely ignoring the real needs of the Majorka people.

In a statement, protest organizers Menys Tourism, Més Vida said: “In the key areas of the tourism model – the activities of the tourism industry, the institutional actions and symbols of the tourism industry.

“If they don’t hear us on the streets, they will feel us in their daily lives.”

Members of the activist group held a trip bus on Palma yesterday.

The activists used the smoke cartridges they placed around the bus and covered them with a great poster that said “stop tourniquet” in the action that was unaware of holding posters with the words ‘good life right’.

A member of Menys Turisme Mes Vida scored a goal by talking to a microphone by the bus: “Today, a trip bus was stopped to condemn the touristization and commercialization of our man and invite everyone to the demonstration of tomorrow.”