After the summer and the holiday season, we started to recover the village. The floods that between the routs to the beach have ended in a similar way in the demonstration. Restaurants have been overwhelmed, amenities to ask for the train and queues to pay for the shopping. After the answers “forgive, but it is over”. The peak season of tourism is finite.

Tourism phobia is fashionable. On television, along with the “good” data provided by governments, comes a small piece to work, to see if tourism phobia has spread. But I have not yet met someone who has been locked up at home for fear of tourists, someone who says that tourists are mere criminals, someone who says that all tourists must be demolished or killed.

Because phobia is an irrational fear. That is what xenophobia and aporophobes really feel. But there is no fear of tourists and much less irrational fear. The word phobia can be very useful not to talk deeply about the issue, to interrupt and avoid debates. Phenomena so different, we all get into one box.

Because people who come to tourism do not feel badly treated to the extent that it is not badly treated. Although it is not the majority, there are not few people who regard the whole village as their particular resort or holiday area, that here people live without responsibility and do things they would never do in their villages. Nor do we hate them, at least in excess or in the amount they would deserve.

If there is fear, it is the consequences of unbridled tourism. The only job in our villages is limited to the precarious sector such as hospitality. The secondary sector is becoming weaker and the importance of the first, for the authorities, is limited to quality stamps and to the origin names or marks that we can show outward. To attract tourists, and to fill the pockets of their friends, everything is on sale and the biosphere reserves that guarantee life. In any case, making a speech on crude and harmful policies is very simple.

The mayor of the previous city hall, the mayor of the PNV, had to give the press conference. There are no properties on the market, either for rent or for sale. We've gone from being expensive to being none. How is that possible? Where are all those houses? Because the houses are empty, even at the rate of death of the people who inhabit them. Feel free to see more and more platforms like Airbnb or Booking.

The mayor's star measure was, in addition to encouraging people to bring their houses to the market, to raise the house tax. Forcing EUR 150 to the EUR 100 payer does not seem too efficient. It remains to be seen whether the new city council intends or is interested in actually intervening in this matter.

More and more people want to put themselves in the basket at the bottom of the chicken that lays golden eggs. And there are no big differences in this between the voters. Perhaps some of them are able to make a first speech on tourism, while they charge the tourist more than EUR 100 per night.

And yes, the institutions have the highest responsibility, but the lack of personal responsibility towards others and the people has also led us to the situation we are in. With as many headaches as possible. If the neighbor does, why not? To ask this question to shout “freedom!” from the Ayusozales does not seem to have much margin.