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Pluskut Tukker posted:Tourism amounts to 12% of the city's GDP. By way of comparison, NYC, a city of 8.5 million inhabitants, received ~58 million visitors last year. Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million people, received around 32 million visitors, with 8+ million staying overnight.That's a lot of people walking around with wheeled suitcases, going out until all hours of the night and making noise keeping people awake. It's also a lot of people staying at apartments that have effectively been turned into AirBnB hotels, driving up the price of housing where it becomes unaffordable for people from Barcelona itself. I was listening to a BBC podcast about this earlier this year and they talked about a bunch of people buying House's to rent out through Airbnb to get around hotel laws. Also their mayor is pretty cool
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safely sodomized posted:castro was not fond of tourism, limiting it heavily until the USSR collapsed and Cuba was in need for hard cash. he associated it with the prerevolutionary period where tourism was run by the american mob and Cuba was seen as an especially hedonistic destination for americans and sex tourism was rampant. the more long term opposition to it was more of a nationalistic thing than socialist imo Honestly Cuba has more right to complain than these guys
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Plutonis posted:That's everywhere in the Third World, if you go to any beach here in Northeast Brazil you'll find a great number of schlubby europeans or americans alongside a prostitute that is very likely to be underage 
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