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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Joan Faus

HISTORICAL FACTS: Spain s mass tourism in candidates crosshairs in election year - Caught on Camera

FILE PHOTO: A man ties protest banners in the balcony of a building that was recently converted for tourist use at Sants neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain, May 19, 2023. The banner reads "No more tourist flats". REUTERS/Albert Gea

Scrawled across Barcelona's opera house, along the city's renowned La Rambla boulevard, is expletive-laden graffiti urging tourists to "go home".

In another district, the messaging is more emphatic still: "Tourism kills neighbourhoods".

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