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"Sustainable tourism is impossible in Barcelona today"

  • Daniel Pardo comes from one of the hardest places in which the problem of tourism lives: From Barcelona. The Tourism Thought Meeting held in San Sebastian on 29-30 September took place in the city, a member of the Assembly of Neighborhoods for Sustainable Tourism, under the acronym in Catalan ABTS.
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Tourism vs. geoglyphs

The Atacama Desert Foundation has denounced on social networks the destruction of the geoglyphs of the area and, through several photographs, has shown the destruction that visitors who travel in 4x4 vehicles to the desert are causing. These are large geoglyphs made between 1000... [+]


2024-09-09 | ARGIA
The City of Casco Viejo de Pamplona suspends the licensing of tourist homes
Groups EH Bildu, PSN, Geroa Bai and Zurekin have agreed a bill to prevent further licensing of tourist housing in the Old Town of Pamplona. The agreement focuses on a “preventive” “urban change” based on three objectives: maintaining the neighborhood’s life model,... [+]

The most touristic villages in Catalonia, meeting point of the votes of the extreme right
In this article, on the basis of the results of the last regional elections and the European Parliament, we will analyze how the vote of the extreme right has risen in the Catalan countries that have the most tourist pressure.

2024-07-17 | Ula Iruretagoiena
Territory and architecture
From here

Close the computer, put on chanclets, stroke with the sun cream. Where are you going on holiday? We've normalized that vacation is going somewhere, because rest needs distance, we say. And when we make the journey, we will become tourists, even if the change of denomination... [+]


2024-07-03 | Ula Iruretagoiena
Territory and architecture
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The pintxos of many bars in the Old Part of Donostiarra come to serve in a van with permission to access the old part of Donostia. In the other bars, to eat the potato tortilla pintxo they prepare, you have to queue and take the turn when the morning van enters the old town. A... [+]


Proud of the old! parties
In the Old Town of Vitoria-Gasteiz, they pay tribute to the neighbors and neighbors who have banned tourist homes on their portals.
Kalejira against tourist homes in Zaharraz Harro! within the festivities, organized by the neighborhood's Etxean bizi housing network. They have denounced those who do "business" with housing, especially the councilman of pp Gustavo Antepara, and have paid tribute to two... [+]

Groups of tourists want to limit themselves to 25 people also in Hondarribia
The group of tourists Abotsanitz, mayor of the city, presents a motion on the "impossibility of going through the streets", on the occasion that the Hondarribiarras "suffer the consequences of this whole tourist mass": "The city model sought by the authorities in recent years is... [+]

Hundreds of people manifest in San Sebastian by a habitable city model
Organized by the San Sebastian Ombudsman Coordinator, formed by various associations of neighbours and social movements in Donostia, hundreds of people have spoken out this Sunday in favor of a habitable city model. 42 social groups and neighborhood associations have joined the... [+]

Debates on silent macro-projects in the electoral campaign
This Sunday the elections will be held in Catalonia on 12 May. Some topics have been covered by the sequels of the Procésa and the possible return of Carles Puigdemonte. But there are two giant and significant projects, both closely linked to tourism: the construction of the... [+]

Will reduce to 25 people the maximum number of people per group of tourists in Donostia
San Sebastián Turismo will implement the measure from 10 April and will be obliged to comply as otherwise they will penalise the tourist driver with fines.

Three out of four Donostiarras consider tourism to harm them “a lot”
The UPV/EHU asks the Donostian citizenship about the perception of tourism and concludes that more than half of the population feels “frustrated”. The research was funded by the City Council of San Sebastian and the Basque Government.

Residents can ban tourist apartments, according to the Supreme Court
Faced with the problems in the two buildings of San Sebastian and Oviedo, the judges have delegated the prohibition of tourist apartments in the communities of neighbors. However, it will be necessary for the prohibition to be included in the residence status of the building.

The Government takes the first steps to implement the tourist tax
At the state level, although few communities have implemented the tourist tax, there are 137 tourist cities worldwide that charge this tax.

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