Spain update - Anti-tourism protest hits Malaga
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Spain update and Malaga is the latest city to have anti-tourism protests with thousands taking to the streets.
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We went to Santander many years ago , the ferry crossing was really rough coming from Portsmouth, then we drove down through cantabria to galicia, absolutely beautiful ! Our holiday in galicia was wonderful , we stayed in a little place called o,grove ! No one spoke English, not even in the hotel great , love it when I can practise my Spanish.
Tourism brings Spain multi-billions of euros yearly. It’s a shame that the news doesn’t accurately depict what the people of Spain are saying. They seem to be against the current tourist model in those cities that they are complaining about. (Not a tourist caused problem). I suppose a headline of “The Spanish don’t want tourists” is more interesting. I feel for the people in the cities and I hope the government solves the issues so all can coexist happily. I’m looking forward to losing my tourist status with next year’s permanent move to Bilbao. Great job as always. Keep it up!
Congrats on the move. Bilbao was the first city we visited in Spain last year - beautiful, clean and safe.
@@jonniesantos thanks. We love it all - especially the people.
Exactly.All folk should ready Laurie Lee's sublime books and how Spain , pre the 60s was a very poor country with widespread poverty and associated issues. Don't wish for what will inevitably cause more social and economic issues than are currently there. Why not petition for more affordable house building and transport infrastructure?
Thank you for all your informative videos and your love for my home country. Greetings from the UK.
Build more hotels and get the hotel costs down. Spain hotels are expensive!
Compared to where? Tbh l find the hotels reasonable and hostals (can be same room without hotel facilities) to be very cheap indeed.
@@saltaireorangebicyclechopp8555 Depends on where and when you travel. On my last trip to Spain I stayed in a very nice place in the center of all the tourist spots like the Grand Mosque. My cost? It was 10€ per night. Hotel prices were reasonable everywhere I w
Sorry, I failed to say Cordoba.
More cheap hotels for Brit hen parties not the answer. Lads night out should be held in Blackpool.
@@JuanAmeritano-yj5xt Wow.
Last week Cadiz was littered with anti tourism posters, there was similar graffiti inland in Jerez too, and l've noted it in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante too, so that the whole coast. I don't blame them, a whole generation of Spanish kids can't work & live, buying or renting, in their own cities.
Buy sun lamps and cheap lager for the Brits so they can stay home
Sounds like Californi a o...🇺🇸 🇪🇸
@@dantownsend4246won’t hope those whose children and grandchildren live in Spain. We’re a bit old to qualify as lager louts
Help not hope!
Spent a month in Malaga last October. Beautiful city.
I so hope we can reciprocate the protests in London outside the Spanish Embassy.
Stopping tourism would be a great way to bankrupt the economy. How would you replace the thousands of lost jobs? No tourists, no service industry, closed hotels bars and restaurants. No need for hire cars and the airports and reliant industries would suffer too.
@@kevinroberts9287Maybe growing our industry? Maybe investing in our burgeoning tech scene? There are many options outside of tourism.
Ohhhh! That woman who painted the Camino arrows to divert off the path should also be forced to wash away the fake arrows. Adding any additional kilometers to an already 900 K trip is awful!!
Olive oil in UK £15.60 a litre bottle 😱 admittedly its extra virgin but a couple of months ago it was £13.85.
I'm going to Malaga next month staying in hotel though!! The hotels are generally more expensive than other spanish cities I have stayed in.
Thank you for not renting an AirBnB
Misinformation....I have a friend who lives in Valtuille de Arriba who owns a very unique, open air bar there. I walked through the pueblocito twice while walking between Cacabelos and Villafranca de Bierzo on the Camino. I think it is more of a case of a hostel not located in the town proper trying to snag pilgrims off the Camino. The wine produced in that region is excellent. Starting in Cacabelos and ending in O' Cebreiro is one of my favorite sections of the Camino.
The govt should be regulating the amounts that owners/landlords can ask for in rent and punish greedy owners that do not follow the law. It´s not the fault of tourists who are encouraged to come to Spain in the thousands, but the fault of greedy airlines, hotels, and landlords.
Greedy landlords? The landlords have almost no rights in Spain.
Terrible idea. The government isn't the solution. Government is the problem.
"Papa ooo mahou, Papa ooo mahou" (The Beach Boys)
I assume when you say the wine abuser will spend time behind bars, you don't mean the bars that serve drinks.
Nice , greets from Calpe
Was that a pun on the loss of Wine. She will spend time behind Bars....
So let’s say the tourists stop coming. Massive job losses and the locals wouldn’t be able to afford an apartment without an income. It’s not just tourist spots where people can’t afford to buy their own home this is a problem that is Europe wide. House prices everywhere are ridiculous
It’s a big problem in the States too.
Many people buy flats/apartments so they have them for their person holidays and rent them out for when they are empty. Do long term lets and they would never be available for their personal use.
Nothing about the problemas in Gata de Gorges?
Hi Stuart.
If you don't leave Spain on the 90 day rule. What is the chance of getting caught.
Many thanks. J
There are so many other countries in the world, the tourists don’t need Soain, Soain nerds tourism
Spain could only let tourists come into the country if they have a verifiable hotel reservation or a proven relative that is letting them stay there.
Yeah, you are not doing that in the EU.
@@Invisiblehand123 Why not? I'm talking about all the English tourists that take up most short term apartments.
We had more or less that in the Franco era and pre EEC era . And you want to go back to that?
@@michaeljones3774 Just thinking of solutions to foreigners taking all the living quarters. Don't get upset, okay?
Build more housing units. There needs to be far more housing available for citizens and tourists. The government is causing this crisis and restricting existing housing solves nothing and gives the government more power. Do you think they’ll allocate and restrict in a fair and benevolent way? They don’t here.
Thanks
jail her and feed her bread and water
No wine!
So glad Malaga is protesting against tourism too. About time. Go Malaga.
It's not only Spain that has a problem, it's all of Europe. Europe is becoming a resort for rich Americans and Asians, while at the same time losing competitiveness.
And no, tourism doesn't "bring money". A few people get rich, and the rest of the country suffers. The more a country depends on tourism for its survival, the more it becomes a 3rd world country (e.g. Maldives, Bali, Caribbean countries, etc...). Spain needs more "real" industries, tech companies, etc...and less tourism.
Why is there a boom of tourism in Europe?
- More and more Americans and Asians are getting richer and can afford to come here. I get it that you want to see this continent...but we are a small place already crowded, we don't have space and infrastructure to accommodate a few hundred millions people, even if they come just for 1 week.
- Social media has brainwashed people to think that they "have to" see certain places in their bucket list, so they all go to the same overrated places (Barcelona, Paris, Rome, etc...)
Can't people just stay home or go somewhere else?
American here… we didn’t make it to Europe during our working years. Now retired and on a smaller budget, it’s on our list (we’ve seen a dozen cities so far). However, both Barcelona and Rome were disappointing because of the sheer number of tourists (us), however the locals were lovely.
That is a massive crock of BS!
@@jonniesantos That is fine, you worked hard and deserve to see it. The problem is
- The instawhores and social media influencers using public spaces as a filming studio, annoying everyone, filming people without their consent, etc...
- Everybody going to the same place AFTER it becomes famous (e.g. nobody knew about "Cinque Terre" a few years ago, not even Italians...now suddenly everybody wants to go there and the place is a hellhole during peak season). Why do people have this sheep mentality?
- AirBnB...started as a way to rent out your spare room (or your spare air mattress, that's how it actually started in SF), but of course greed took over and now it's an industry of its own, competing with hotels but without all the regulations etc....
Real estate is a scarce asset, for god's sake (it's incredibly difficult to increase the supply, unless you want to create favelas in European cities), and it's a basic need. It must not become a vehicle of investment and greed.
@@Invisiblehand123 Care to go into the details? Otherwise your comment is BS.
Nothing wrong with American people coming here to see where many of their , ancestors originated from.
Chairman Mahou
But they used to colonize countries forcibly. This is just a small payback to the sins of their forefathers.
they'll soon be crying for tourists when the money runs short