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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't see what the best solution here is. Are hotel rooms sitting empty because everyone is staying in AirBnbs? Not to my knowledge, so the issue is the demand for a place to sleep is so high that the hotels alone can't meet it.

But, any tourist, no matter where they stay, is spending money in the local economy. Restaurants, taxi drivers, etc all benefit directly from tourists. Is the goal to drive them away and deflate the economy? Spain has a 26% youth unemployment rate. Do they really want to make this worse?[/quote]

Uh, the topic is mass tourism and why it’s a bad thing.

If AirBnBs didn’t exist, then overly touristy places like Barcelona could essentially limit the number of tourists…by the number of hotel rooms.

[b]Your post makes it sound like tourists deserve to over-run a city by displacing locals through the conversion of rental housing to AirBnB vacation rentals. [/b]
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That’s the problem!

That’s why locals are taking to the streets to protest in such aggressive ways as screaming at tourists in cafes while squirting them.

I’m not defending the aggressive protesting. It’s not cool.

But Dcumlandia should recognize its role in such things when you opt to stay in an AirBnB.

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The person who posted locals should just move further out absolutely believes this. [/quote]

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