The targets of anti-tourist protests keep pulling this card to be like "No, these people are being xenophobic by not wanting us here!" And it's like... I don't think local people would mind foreign visitors if it meant that they could actually exist in their homes comfortably, so it's not that they don't want foreign visitors... It's that they don't want everything that comes with the excessive focus on building a tourism industry (and also becoming reliant on tourism to survive).

I can speak to this from personal experience:

There is an AirBnB over my home, and the people who stay there are routinely disrespecting the people who live in this building. They leave trash everywhere without consideration for the fact that we all live here. They leave their bicycles and strollers in already too-small hallways, making it hard to get around them. Many people who stay in the AirBnB hold loud parties late into the evening (resulting in other neighbours calling the cops) and are seemingly forever drunk. They're constantly trying to get into my house because, despite the obvious sign on the door stating otherwise, they seem to think my flat is the AirBnB.

I can barely walk through the neighbourhood I live in, especially during peak tourism time (summer). Even though the city (thankfully) got rid of the fucking tourist buses running down already tiny old streets, there are now 20-30 tour groups per day with 30-40 people per group. Unlike school children being forced on a school trip, none of these adults can figure out how to stand in a fucking line and make space for people to walk through the already congested streets. I regularly have to yell at people to get the fuck away from the entrance to the building I live in because they won't let me in or out. I don't know why; there is nothing historical to stop at on my street.

Outside seating takes up a ridiculous amount of space (and useful sidewalks) in some areas, forcing people into difficult-to-walk spaces. Lines at popular ice cream shops take up the whole fucking street, with people refusing to let people through for fear that someone might inconvenience them a tiny bit. There are no grocery stores until you walk at least 15 or so minutes away, and all the nearest shops are bars and restaurants. Parks -away- from the tourist parts of the city are badly maintained because why would they bother spending money on places where tourists don't go? The river is full of cruise ships every fucking day, there are tour buses stopped in the shared bicycle/bus lanes all the time! In other areas, the tour buses always stop -behind- the unprotected crosswalks, meaning you can't see if you're going to get hit by a car or not because they are so fucking large.

I've also had to yell at tourists for being assholes in multiple contexts. During a marathon, I was yelling at tour groups trying to cross the set path when runners were coming (not even waiting for large gaps, just straight up walking in front of runners) because they could've hurt someone. I've yelled at French tourists getting upset and threatening their Slovak waitress who was working in a chain cafe that uses a French name for not speaking French. I've had to yell at drunk men in more than one context, and I routinely avoid certain streets (with all the bars) when coming home on Fridays at 6pm because so many people are already drunk off their asses. I've been woken up by fights in the street between two people who aren't even speaking the same language (the most common combination are English/German-speakers). German-speaking tourists come here and start being super racist about "the Slavs," especially if anyone here tells them 'no' or denies them service (usually for being too loud/drunk and disrupting other people).

[EDIT: AND THE FUCKING CONSTANT STREAM OF BACHELOR PARTIES, how could I forget.]

... It is an understatement to say that it sucks.

But I'm also an immigrant where I live so it's hard not to notice when people critical of tourism or the anti-tourist protesters themselves (regardless of where they are) are using rhetoric that doesn't support the inclusion of immigrants in their communities. "We've lost our culture" is a curious sentiment to have considering culture is an ever-evolving concept that changes based on a number of factors.

I've also seen some protesters explicitly targeting immigrants, ignoring that they... live there. This is particularly true when an immigrant community has any outwardly obvious differences, and it starts hitting some racist/xenophobic notes when it happens. And I say this because I want people to be cautious of conflating the two (and the conflation of the two is more likely to help those you're protesting against than your protest as a whole).