Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’
Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’
“People who go on vacation to one place or another are not our enemies, nor are they the target of our actions,” he said. “Let me be clear: our enemies are those who speculate on housing, who exploit workers and those who are profiting handsomely from the touristification of our cities.”
It's always about a class struggle, isn't it.
Yes, but the media is going to turn this into an "anti-tourist" thing to turn people against them, even though they explicitly state that isn't the purpose.
Threading through all the actions is a rallying cry for a rethink of a tourism model that campaigners say has increasingly funnelled profits into the hands of a few, while leaving locals to pay the price through soaring house prices and rents, environmental degradation and the proliferation of precarious, low-paying jobs.
There, that's the line. It's not about "tourists bad" or some kind of hypocrisy. It's about "we want a different tourist industry that doesn't externalize it's costs to society".
Pshhhh, America is streets ahead of you guys, nobody wants to vacation here anymore!
“People who go on vacation to one place or another are not our enemies, nor are they the target of our actions,” he said. “Let me be clear: our enemies are those who speculate on housing, who exploit workers and those who are profiting handsomely from the touristification of our cities.”
Ok maybe you're handling it a little better.
I would very much like to visit America. Just not the USA portion of it.
I think it is just a different way that tourism is handled.
A lot of tourism within the USA is handled in specific tourism districts/cities. In cases where tourism is big in cities not built for tourism like New York and Philadelphia, there are still districts in the city that locals gave up in exchange for having other districts that aren't as deluged by tourism.
In Europe, the tourism district is usually the most important historically and culturally.
ecotourism also very ruinious as well, in some natural area, trampling paths, roads, ignoring wildlife, plants.
A result of the “global village”. Deep in our hearts we know that it would be better for the climate, the cities and ourselves if we lived just a little bit more modestly. Travel less, there’s too many of us.
Traveling in Europe is very different from the rest of the world though. You can just get anywhere on train or boat. Or even bus.
When the rasism of the neofaschists now also applies to other europeans...
Tourists are just the evil foreigners of countries not attractive to immigration...
It's always the same story. Fuck up the domestic market, especially in housing, to make a few rich people even richer, then shift the blame to someone else (as directed by those rich paying to get you manipulated).
I wonder how many of these people regularly visit other countries as tourists.
They arent protesting the tourists, but the industry. There is a lot of things wrong with the tourism industry, but a big is them buying up houses to rent out to tourists, which increases the value of houses. Youre comment is like telling many people live in houses after a protest against abusive landlords.
Careful with that logic.
I got a comment deleted for highlighting that a protester who glued themselves to an airport runway probably gets flights for their holidays.
