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In 2013 at RTD7, the 7th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations, held in Barcelona, Catalunya concern was expressed about the negative impacts of tourism on the city and on Catalunya. The conference declaration recognised that “less emphasis needs to be placed on increasing the number of arrivals and a greater emphasis put on the management of tourism”. Despite the anti-tourist graffiti none of us foresaw the rapidity with which the issue of host-guest conflict would emerge as a political issue in the mayoral elections in 2015. The balance has shifted for the promotion of tourism to its management in a city where there are tensions in some residential areas between locals and partying tourists. Barcelona is emerging as the leading administration managing the social impacts of tourism – there is much for other local governments to learn for their experience of changing the priority from marketing and promotion to governance, exercising leadership in engaging residents and ensuring that their interests are respected and distributing tourism more evenly in the region and the society.
2017
http://www.fairtourism.barcelona/
http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/08/barcelonas-tourism-battle
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2006 HELP!!! Are Spanish people from Barcelona that rude???
2008 Barcelona Street Crime
2009 The Rambla going downhill
2009 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – BARCELONA’S LA RAMBLA
2009 Barcelona split over campaign to banish sleaze from Ramblas
2009 Barcelona named pickpocket capital of the world
2009 Barcelona’s famous Las Ramblas is becoming too seedy for tourists
2009 Shock tactics to fight Barcelona crime
2010 Barcelona rebels against tourist invasion
2010 Tourist trade cheapens Barcelona
2014 Is Tourism Ruining Barcelona?
2014 Anti ‘binge tourism’ demo swarms streets of Barcelona
2014 Bye Bye Barcelona: Entrevista a Marc Javierre
Bye Bye Barcelona (Full length)
2014 Barcelona residents protest against anti-social behaviour - Euronews
2014 Bye Bye Barcelona documentary 155,000 + views
2014 Naked Italians in Barceloneta
2014 Mass tourism can kill a city - just ask Barcelona's residents
2015 Barcelona struggles with rising tide of 27 million tourists
2016 Barcelona fines TripAdvisor €30,000 for breaching tourism laws
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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/spain-attacks-anti-tourism-british-tourists-visit-barcelona-majorca-valencia-san-sebastian-a7886371.html
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