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'Your holidays, my misery': Europeans protest overtourism with water pistols, smoke bombs
Protesters in Spain joined groups in Portugal and Italy, arguing that uncontrolled tourism was raising housing prices and ...
What US travelers need to know amid anti-tourism protests in Europe
The U.S. State Department is warning travelers to exercise more caution when traveling to Europe amid a renewed wave of ...
The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona
The protest in Barcelona culminated in chants of "You're all guiris!" – local slang for foreigners – and a burst of ...
How the humble water gun became the symbol of Barcelona’s anti-tourism movement
The humble water gun — the cheap, squirt-squirt variety — has become the weapon of choice and symbol of Spain's anti-tourism ...
Coordinated protests against tourism levels planned in Spain, Portugal and Italy
By Joan Faus and Corina Pons BARCELONA (Reuters) -Activists against overtourism are planning protests across Spain, Portugal ...
Spain hotels targeted & sunseekers surrounded in ‘unacceptable’ protest chaos amid ‘tourism is terrorism’ alert to Irish
FUMING Spanish locals yesterday surrounded a hotel and targeted tourists with water guns as mass protests unfolded across the ...
Spain tourism protests sparks Airbnb response after thousand march against holiday homes
Airbnb has responded after thousands of angry Majorcans marched through Palma on Sunday in a noisy protest that told tourists ...
Anti-tourism protests break out in Spain, Italy and Portugal
Anti-mass tourism campaigners say excessive levels of visitors in southern Europe are forcing locals out of affordable ...