I’m staying in a Airbnb in Alicante and have came back to see this stuck to the door. We have been here 5 days and have barely been inside because we spent most of the days out seeing the city and at the beach. Do the residents of Alicante dislike tourists or is this a bit more personal? And should I be concerned? I don’t know how the people of Alicante feel on this matter.
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as far as I’m aware, there’s massive protests at the moment about people from outside of spain buying flats and places in seaside Spanish towns and renting them on airbnb, leading to less accommodation and housing for locals to buy, you’re probably getting caught in the crossfire here
Dont you worry, its not something personal. Is the fact that every place in Spain that have something minimum interesting is increasing the prices of everything (rent included) because of the tourism. Also the crowds, oh fuck the crowds…
I live in Marbella and the entire local economy is built around tourism. There’s almost no other industry, and we were hit hard by the pandemic. Everyone here remembers empty streets and closed shops, and we’re happy that the tourists are back.
So come visit here, you’ll be welcome.
Bring money.
Yes, it’s personal. We Spaniards hate outsiders. But since hating on African immigrants has become controversial for some reason in the last years, we’ve decided to reinvent and also hate on those who come from higher latitudes. /s
Do you think that it would escalate or is it likely just the sticker and nothing more? I am here for another 4 days. Normally I wouldn’t be concerned but I am not alone and don’t want unnecessary trouble for them.
I hate seeing those signs. I’m sure the people complaining about it then go to enjoy their holidays to other cities/countries.
The thing is that there are a lot of hotels, controlling the number of available rooms is a way to control the maximum tourism capacity of a place, the moment the airbnb mafia is allowed this is no longer true.
Long ago I decided to not use airbnb or anything similar, at the end hotels are mean to offer those service and usually offer better rates and better service.
Thats’s written by the same people who goes to places like Prague, Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona on their Holidays.
Everey tourist should be welcome everywhere if they don´t mess up.
The problems of the Tourism should be solve by politicians, not by tourists.
You should not be concerned for your personal safety. This is mostly due to the fact that someone in the neighbourhood knows where you are staying is an Airbnb. Airbnbs are getting really bad reputation for locals as they take living space for local to offer it to tourism.
The only thing you should do is from now on consider booking your holidays out of Airbnb and use hotels or aparthotels as these don’t take space from locals so everyone can benefit from your stay whenever you go.
yeah fucking retards, just ignore it.
There are negative effects of all sectors yes, but isn’t tourism main reason normal people there can live the lives they have?
I read “while balconing” 🤣🤣🤣
Tourists do indeed usually go back home. Wouldn’t a better slogan be something like “Next time, stay away…”? I understand that there’s a need to vent, but the tourists don’t vote, they build nothing, they just have money. Good policy is needed to make sure some of that money stays in the area; for example, regulation of the rental market, building of more social housing, subsidies for local businesses that cater to the local population. And besides that, all major European cities are full of Spanish tourists. Do these people want to ban all tourism? Where do we draw the line? Can a tourist from, say, Lleida, visit Barcelona? How large should the accessible circle around one’s home be?
It’s not personal. We’re being kicked out of the places where we were born and raised because of tourism and foreigners even buying housing here. I don’t know if that helps you understand a little bit how the person who left that paper for you might be feeling. This topic has been getting really serious lately. Anyways, I’m sure you’ll be safe and that it’s nothing personal.
Knobheads.
I don’t think tourists are fundamentally bad
Any cities local economy can get a useful boost from tourism. Tourism can provide much needed seasonal work for people.
Yes, there can be an impact of crowds in popular areas, but that ebbs and flows with the time of year.
For me I think the main issue is the short term stay renters and people who use things like Airbnb. There seems to be little local authority control over this market sector. Landlords can make so much income from rent that it removes the property from the market and makes it so much harder for locals to find affordable accommodation.
If the authorities could get a grip on this, capping rent etc. it could possibly do something to bring it back under control.
It’s nothing personal, just against tourism in general
Sorry for that, man, some people are stupid
It still confuses me how this should be on the tourists? Why not making the government/asking for more regulations about airbnbs to be the center of the protest? Tourists come because they can/there are flats available? Ask for more regulations on flats speculators, not telling the people to go away, it’s only a miserable way to handle the problem.
Banking system screwed Spain over not tourist but people are too ignorant to see that deeply. Their is an ongoing backlash of Spanish residents about the rents going up and too many flats dedicated airbnb making them to expensive to live for residents, that why the mood is sour.
I’ve been coming to Spain since the 70s and much of the problem started when Spanish mayors gave permission for huge ugly hotels and apartments to be built on the frontline of the coast. They completely destroyed a lot of the charm and beauty of the originally low rise Spanish white wash houses.
Re: high rent for locals. No company should be allowed to own and rent residential properties. Property owners should be incentivised to rent long term. More incentive than renting short term on AirBnB. Short term holiday rent has taken a lot of the charm away from places like Barcelona because there a too many tourists and pickpockets compared to local Spanish residents.
just ignore them. Don’t let racists scare you off going somewhere, there is nothing wrong with pissing off racists and in fact, you should enjoy the way you being there is making them upset.
Enjoy your trip 🙂