But the welcome that awaits tourists in recent weeks is somewhat… different. Because the first thing travelers see at the airport is a warning message: “Alert for drought. Save water during your stay.” New round of restrictive regulations Last April, the Catalan government approved a new series of restrictive measures regarding the water consumption, in … Read more
The first city to officially do what everyone thinks… From 2028, it will be forbidden to rent Airbnb apartments to tourists in Barcelona, Spain in an effort to curb the rapid rise in the cost of housing. In recent years, Barcelona has become financially unsustainable for many of its residents, leading the municipality to make … Read more
“Nowhere else in the EU is hypertourism as intense as in the Greek islands of the southern Aegean Sea,” writes the tagesschau, citing Eurostat figures published by the German Federal Statistical Office. In the island area as the Santorini and the Mykonos were recorded in 2022 average 110 nights per inhabitant – no other region … Read more
THE Spain attracted record numbers of tourists last year as it vied to steal its title of France as the world’s leading tourist destination – but the influx of visitors provokes angry outbursts of “touritophobia”. The Iberian country recorded an increase of 13 million in 2023, bringing the number of international visitors to a new … Read more