Dear tourist, just stay home!

Today, in multiple cities in Spain (Barcelona, Girona, on Mallorca...) demonstrations against tourism took place.

The inhabitants of the destinations of mass-tourism are really angry about what they experiece as an extractivist neoliberal model of tourism with negative consequences for the climate and the environment, leads to gentrification and boring unliveable cities whilr the benefits rnd up in the pockets of a few.

Platforms for a #degrowth of tourism with many adhering collectives and associations have formed and the administrations are panicking (since these unsustainable models of tourism were promoted by all governments of the last decades).

Important: if you are there and see people spraying "Tourists go home!", don't take it too personal, but understand that you relaxing and living your privilege is making the life of the locals difficult, even if it is not your intention.

In capitalism, you can't even drink a coffee without harming someome.

#Barcelona #Girona #Mallorca #Spain #Tourism #Travelling #CycleTourism #TravelBlogs #Degrowth