AMAA - España - Is Spain SICK of Tourists? - Reaction by Average Middle Aged American
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- In this video, I react to and discuss the video: "Is Spain SICK of Tourists?" My commentary is my based on my opinion as an Average Middle Aged American that had not yet been to Spain or even Europe. :-)
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How is the volume?
Good.
A bit better, way more balanced than the past videos.
Also, they keep building apartments in Spain, but they are EXTREMELY expensive and only foreigners who have higher salaries can afford them :/ So yeah, most young Spanish people cannot afford to live on their own
In terms of nominal gross domestic product, Spain is one of the 15 largest economies in the world. The most important economic sectors are tourism, communications and information technology, the metalworking industry, mechanical engineering, agriculture and petrochemicals.
So losing 12% of one of the largest economies in the world would not be so good...
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American They aren't "loosing" it, tourists will come no matter what. But it has to be better regulated, that's what they are asking for.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American tourism is 12%, but half of that is national, and national tourism doesn't create problems. Normally just some nationalities are the ones, mostly Brits and Germans, that creates problems and invades. The rest of the tourists, like Japanese, are very respectful and spend a good amount of money. Brits and German are normally cheap tourists that destroy, yeah literally destroy, more than spend. It's not about tourism, it's about the quality of it and unfortunately the tourism in the South of Europe is shit, very cheap and disrespectful tourists that it doesn't make it worthy the money that the country can earn with it.
20:12 in Europe we think culture and art are as important as food.
Also, places of worship should not need a ticket to get inside.
All these amazing places are not “tourist attractions”, we open them up to the world to see because they’re amazing, but that’s a courtesy. The majority of them were not built to attract mass tourism (anything before the late XIX century)
Then I guess one can't complain about it, huh?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American a 90k inhabitants town like Pisa is not built to host millions of tourists. Venice proper is 6 square miles split in like a dozen of islands, swarmed by millions it’s now full of tourist traps and you need a ticket to enter, like Disneyland.
Rome, Naples and (ew) Milan handle the tourist way better, because they’re huge, multicultural cities, but some specific locations in Rome suffer of overtourism for sure.
But Italy has literally thousands of amazing towns totally forgot by the world, if tourists did a bit of research instead of flocking to the usual ten places people could discover amazing places rich in history, with great food and cheap prices. The same can be said about Rome, where people goes with a 10 places checklist, and totally misses the great things about the places.
Tourist come here, they want to toss the coin in the Trevi Fountain, do selfies with roman legionaries dressed in plastic armor and eat “spaghetti alla bolognese” and have mcdonald’s close by, lol. No interest for the actual culture and lifestyle of the place they visit, they think itian culture il gucci and dolce & gabbana or whatever.
Sorry for the rant.
Check out “Rome Italy. Here’s the situation in Rome right now. Rome walking tour, Rome in jume” by Amazing Walking Tours (double speed suggested), to see how many tourists flock to the major attractions. There are literally hundreds of places all around the city (and Rome is big) that nobody knows, they go to visit only the places they already know exist. There are more than 50 museums in the city of Rome, but everybody visits the Vatican Museums that’s not even in Italy lol/sigh.
You can't charge for access to a public place only to those who aren't Spanish, it needs to be either charging everyone or making an exception for EU citizens, not just Spaniards. This happened when the Spanish government made access to museums free for everyone in Spain, the EU "politely" reminded the Spanish authorities it was discriminatory against other EU citizens, so it became 1 day a week free for everyone from the EU, everyone has to pay the rest of the days. Also you can't charge people for accessing a cathedral, it's a church, a place of prayer, free for everyone. You pay to see the museum part of the cathedral only.
@Xiroi87 - I disagree with almost everything you said, but I do appreciate your opinion. You can easily give citizens and residents a discount on admission to areas. There are tons of ways to make things cheaper for residents. Tax credits, etc.
Thank you for reacting to Spain stuff. Not many Americans do, they rather do Germany, UK or France. The typical countries...😊
In the case of Venice, they have limited to 3 daily, which is still 21,000 (total 100,000 tourists daily) for this small city 50k. The city is at risk of destruction. Also by the ships themselves, as in the fjords of Norway.
Price hikes, then only the rich can afford to travel. Yes, very American! Haha 😜
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LOL.
Thanks?
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here airbnb is totally different, any apartment or house can be an airbnb, there's really shitty ones that are really overprized
Too much tourism is a bad thing indeed. I’m from Bologna, northern Italy, and we had a tourism boom roughly 3 years ago.
Bologna is a university city (we have the oldest university in europe, founded 1088 ad), but now most people who used to rent to students converted the apartaments in bnbs, and the price of all apartments rentals has gone totally berserk.
Old, traditional workshop close down, and expensive tourist traps open up in their place, life gets exponentially more expensive for everyone.
It’s both an economic and cultural problem, and the solution is not banning tourism, but better managing it (like with waaay stricter rules on airbnb, like they did in Berlin).
At 20:12 it’s the interior of the (still underconstruction) Sagrada Familia.
Oh, and let me add: on islands real estate is limited.
@@conigliostressato - why not tax the visitors and not the residents?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American how do you tax the tourist? You can tax more certain activities, for sure, and that’s one of the things many anti-airbnb activists (and hotel owners) ask for, since often the airbnb system get used from people who owns as many rooms as regular hotels, but paying less taxes (taxing gig economy jobs it’s not always something straightforward, since the intermediaries are often foreign companies).
Putting tickets on spaces like churches is always awful, you shouldn’t need a ticket booth to get inside a church, it’s plain wrong (and i’m not even religious, but a church is a church!)
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American
Check out “Rome Italy. Here’s is the situation in Rome right now. Rome walking tour, Rome in june” by Amazing Walking Tours.
All the most popular spots are walled in tourists, looks stressing AF tomme.
Meanwhile there are literally hundreds of other incredible spots in the city that get totally ignored.
There are more than 50 museums in Rome, and everybody visits the Vatican Museums, that are not even in Italy, lol.
Then compare to touristic, but not yet overtourified, Napoli:
“Naples, Italy 🇮🇹 - MY FAVORITE CITY - 4K60fps with Captions” also by Amazing Walking Tours.
The city is crowded too (it was last year during the monthlong celebration of their soccer team winning the national championship), but it’s people who lives there, not tourists. See the difference?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American lol a couple of days ago the NYT did a piece about overtourifucation in Bologna
As there are more tenants in Germany, there are also more landlords. So it can't be that bad. It's just not as speculative as in the USA. The last time my landlady raised the rent was 10 years ago. 🥰
Just because landlords put up with the market and laws does not mean it is great for them. It is their only choice. Your landlady must care more about you than money (or she ripped you off in the beginning 🙂)
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American In Europe, people do not _speculate_ with real estate as they do in the USA, at least not to the same extent. Buying a home is often a retirement plan in the sense that it is rented out and the mortgage is paid off through the rent while the landlord family lives in their (inherited) family home. Sometimes the apartment is meant as the first home for a child when moving out. When the parents get old, they claim the rented apartment for themselves and leave the family home to the children. We don't buy and sell houses and apartments like you do in the USA. And we don't look at real estate prices like at share prices on the stock market. That's, by the way, the reason why we don't have HOAs, because nobody cares if real estate prices go up or down, just because some neighbour doesn't mow his lawn or paints his house pink …
PS: And yes, I too currently have and have had in past very nice landlords who don't rip off their tenants …
@@hape3862 - In America, for many, one's home is their retirement plan. Most people have a 30 year mortgage and the median price is around $350-$400k. The median household income is $75k, so $400k goes a long way on top of investments, pensions, and social security payments ($2k per month) if one downsizes. Downsizing is common since the median American homes are so much bigger than than the median homes of most countries. Of course, many stay in their homes after paying it off.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Yes, I know. But I wanted to explain that here - unlike in the US - the retirement plan of "owning a home" does not mean selling it to have money for retirement. That's why real estate prices and their fluctuations are not so important to us. As you've heard in other videos, we buy/build a home to keep - usually for generations to come. Selling your parents' house, where you and your siblings grew up, is tantamount to sacrilege for most Europeans. So the whole real estate sector is completely different here, and the real estate crisis of 2008 could not have happened here - with _one_ exception: Spain! Back then, there were speculators who built cheap apartments for foreigners and Spaniards as vacation homes on a grand scale, but this was a huge Ponzi scheme that collapsed together with the American Ponzi scheme in 2008 and led Spain into a deep economic crisis. Now it's starting again with Air B&B, and Spaniards are already fearing the next crisis because the government simply can't get the housing situation under control. Scaring away a few tourists and not having the problems they bring with them seems like a better choice than losing your own culture (=becoming Disney Land) and the next national bankruptcy, doesn't it?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_AmericanNo, I pay quite little, like the others in the house, 6 apartments. There is more than money, namely peace, she likes quiet reliable tenants instead of constantly looking for tenants. Close to us is a university (Constance) town so she could charge a lot more. Or make it Airbnb since it's a big tourist area. USA is a company, not a country, it's not just me saying that.
Lots of tourists in spain are young people from the north of europe.
They are getting drunk and want to party (of course, not all. But a lot).
Hot weather + alcohol...we all know what can happen...
So i kinda understand the spanish.
But they make a lot of money with those kind of tourists.
If they raise prices too high, the kids will spend their money somewhere else.
Exactly. Walk the business you don't want.
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@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Yes thank you
I understand the protest, or the reason, but in my opinion it is wrongly addressed. We have a similar problem on Sylt and other islands, or areas like Lake Starnberg. But there it is the rich and beautiful (cough) who make the prices unaffordable. Not all Airbnb / vacation rentals are that big. Almost no locals live in Venice anymore, they work there and then leave the city in the evening, which is more difficult on an island. Other problems are cruise ships, whether sea or river, the crowds hardly leave any money in the city
.Local politicians are responsible, follow the money.
Really? We spend money in every port.
@@arnodobler1096 Moin!Amsterdam hat große Probleme mit Englischen Touristen und bizarre Werbung in GB gemacht da verändert sich einiges zum Vorteil der Local people.
@@wietholdtbuhl6168 Wirklich? Interessant.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_Americanamerican tourists tend to spend money on the eorst tourist traps (because you expect to be visitinh vegas, and not a real toen)
Hi , westminster Abbey is around £ 30 I think to get in unless you get a national trust membership for the year , you should do a video on westminster Abbey it's an incredible place full to the brim of sculptures , tombs of old kings and queens . London is busy in summer you can't enjoy it so much if too many people in my opinion 😊
Makes sense to me!