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A taxing time for tourists?
Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...
Greg Richards
Nov 25, 20244 min read

Patient Zero of the Overtourism Plague?
A recent exchange reported in the Guardian encapsulated the differing views of ‘tourism’ from the perspective of the tourists and the...
Greg Richards
Sep 30, 20242 min read


Tourist graffiti: vandalism or memorial?
A number of widely publicised cases of tourists defacing ancient monuments in Italy has shed light on the continuing debate around the...
Greg Richards
Jun 5, 20242 min read


Lanzarote – paradise for tourists or inept politicians?
The Canary Islands were shaken this weekend by a wave of protests about mass tourism, which reverberated as far as London and New York....
Greg Richards
Apr 21, 20242 min read


Painting ‘tourists go home’ is not enough
As reported previously in this blog, since the pandemic gave way to a new flood of tourism arrivals in Barcelona, the city has been...
Greg Richards
Jan 22, 20231 min read


Tourists go home? They don't seem to be listening
Before the pandemic, Barcelona distinguished itself as the anti-tourism capital of Europe, with burning tourist busses and locals...
Greg Richards
Sep 30, 20222 min read


Has Amsterdam managed to control Airbnb?
The city of Amsterdam recently reported that measures taken to reduce the number of Airbnb properties have been successful, with a...
Greg Richards
Oct 26, 20213 min read
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