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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

2004 One Night in Barcelona: The Secret Underbelly of Spain’s Wildest City
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

From Indignado to Mayoress

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 No locals on the Ramblas 

2016 Barcelona fines TripAdvisor €30,000 for breaching tourism laws

2017 Masked 'anti-tourist' vigilante group slash the tyres of an open-top bus filled with holidaymakers in Barcelona 'because they don't want the country turned into an amusement park'

The Local es 20170705 Bye-bye locals: Tourists are taking over Europe's city centres

Barcelona Is Trying to Come to Terms With Its Overtourism Problem

Barcelona to hire more inspectors 

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/spain-attacks-anti-tourism-british-tourists-visit-barcelona-majorca-valencia-san-sebastian-a7886371.html

Barcelona’s war on tourists

Flags, Noise, and Tourism in Barcelona

Busting the boom: why Barcelona wants to curb mass tourism

Spain: 'Go home, drunk tourists!' demand thousands of Barcelona locals