It was the water pistol shot that echoed around the world. In the summer of 2024, after years of enduring the pressures of overtourism, locals in Barcelona ramped up their protest, with thousands ...

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A group of tourists were sitting at an outdoor table in the Spanish city of Barcelona, trying to enjoy their drinks, when a woman raised a cheap plastic water gun and shot an ...

Barcelona is pivoting away from mass to quality tourism promotion in the wake of local outrage and pressure. Barcelona’s tourism board is replacing its 15-year-old slogan ‘Visit Barcelona’ with ‘This ...

Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism. Demonstrators marching through areas popular with tourists on Saturday chanted “tourists go ...

Thousands of Barcelona residents marched in protest of mass tourism in the city over the weekend, some of them spraying diners in popular tourist areas with water pistols. The fed-up protesters ...

Before last year, Martí Cusó didn’t like to linger in the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the neighborhood where he has lived all his life. It was impossible to sit on a bench or play with his ...

Barcelona’s infamous bar-hopping tours are now officially off the menu. The Spanish party hotspot has forbidden pub crawls ...