“Good Tourism” in Spain

“Good Tour­ism” des­tin­a­tions and places in Spain, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the south­west­ern European nation who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

For real: Barcelona’s housing crisis caused by anti-hospitality policy, not tourism

November 17, 2024
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What caused Barcelona's housing crisis? Tourism? Or anti-tourism policy? El Pórtico de la Lavandera, Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain. Image by LoggaWiggler (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/park-g%C3%BCell-gaud%C3%AD-5238/

Prop­erty man­age­ment pro­fes­sion­al Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci shares his views on Bar­celon­a’s hous­ing crisis and the anti-tour­ism polit­ics at play in his adop­ted home city.  Pub­lished in col­lab­or­a­tion with Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions, a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner, it’s Mr Ber­to­lu­c­ci’s sev­enth “GT” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] On the anti-tour­ism radar The most […]

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Overtourism overturned: How Calviá, Majorca turned its tourism fortunes around

February 8, 2019
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Overtourism no more? The beach at Magalluf, a major holiday resort in the municipality of Calviá Wikimedia. By Rafael Ortega Díaz (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. Cropped and enhanced by "GT". https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1899528

Richard Shep­ard reck­ons “over­tour­ism” is an old prob­lem and that there are plenty of proven solu­tions. As he dis­cusses in this “GT” Insight, all that’s required is the “polit­ic­al and social will” to imple­ment them.  “Tour­ists go home” That’s not a rarely heard sen­ti­ment lately. You might think that over­tour­ism, based on the head­lines this past year, […]

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