Re:Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists
by cpach on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:43PM
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There’s something called zoning, and its used in a lot of places to do things like separating hotel areas and residential areas.
Re:Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists
by wintermutestwin on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:52PM
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…and that is a major plus to using Airbnb. I don’t want to have to be in a tourist zone because they, just like hotels, suck.
Airbnb has turned me into a traveller because they disrupted the hotel industry. When a city bans airbnb, they are banning me from visiting.
Re:Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists
by hindsightbias on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:05PM
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So Barcelona builds 50K homes and 49K are airbnb’d.
Build it and they will come.
Maybe in someone's ideal world we can put everyone in a city into the categories of "outsiders" and "residents" and enforce a strict regime where "outsiders" are strictly prohibited from occupying housing that rightfully should go to "residents", but we don't live in a world where that's possible.
If Airbnb didn't exist someone else would have come up with it. If somehow the idea was preemptively disallowed, then the complaint would be that there are too many hostels operating under-the-table.
Without building more housing, there is nothing you can fundamentally do about tourism except make Barcelona a worse place, in comparison to everywhere else, for everyone.