This year appears to have marked a watershed for attitudes to tourism in Spain, with more protests planned.

It’s well past the August holiday peak, but anger against over-tourism in Spain is spilling into the off-season, as holiday-makers continue to seek winter sun.

On Sunday locals in the Basque city of San Sebastian plan to take to the streets under the banner: “We are in danger; degrow tourism!”

And in November anti-tourism protesters will gather in Seville.

Thousands turned out last Sunday in the Canary Islands, so the problem is clearly not going away.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I’ll be the first to admit that some British people are awful when they go abroad, but let’s not label entire countries based on the actions of a few.