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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Tourists go home: Leftists resist Spain's influx
 
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MizPiz posted:

That's what a tourism-based economy looks like. If Barcelona is able to free itself from that hell, then it should go hard and never look back.
Barcelona is not a tourism-based economy, I'm pretty sure. Not any more than New York City is at least. Can't speak for the rest of Catalonia though.

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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.
OK, I underestimated the number of tourists, though the GDP percentage confirms pretty well that it's not a tourism based economy I think. In regards to the NYC comparison, by my calculations the GDP of NYC is about $330 billion - tourists brought in $41.4 billion in 2012, which comes out to 12.5% of GDP, so I was pretty spot on there at least. Your point stands in regards to annoyance though, since Barcelona needs three times as many tourists per capita to gain the same benefit. That's before you get into important cultural differences, like Northern Europeans traditional "clubbing hours" starting and ending like four hours earlier than the locals are used to.

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