This is not Rome, or Paris, or New York. Neither Santorini nor Tokyo. A city with the most dense tourism on the planet is amazing, much closer: BarcelonaA field next to the sea, without skyscrapers and a daily avalanche of cruise liners, the Catalan capital became the world epicenter of mass tourism.
In full summer, Barcelona reaches record numbers: More than 200,000 tourists per square kilometer In the most visited areas such as the Gothic district, Sagrada Familia or La Barceloneta. The density that exceeds any other city in the world, and that its neighbors with growing.
“The streets are full. This is a burden, ”says the neighbor’s neighbor who says the city “It was completely housing 50 years ago, but now it has changed a lot”The youngest field also notices this. “More and more tourists, more people. Metro, streets, everything is destroyed, ”says the student in the university zone.
According to Haima Palomer, co -author of the city scientific research institute (IDRA), the growth of tourism has no brake: “This is a vicious circleThe field instead of reaching a stop, it continues and continues to grow. And what he does is other economic sectors. “
This is a phenomenon Direct influence on everyday life; Increase in rental prices, the disappearance of local trade, the saturation of services and the movement of residents. “I came here before, but now I am avoiding this,” another neighbor admits. “Prices are very expensive, and you cannot be with such a large number of people,” the young woman adds.
Experts are asked to rethink the tourist model and encourage less massive directions. Because there is no soul in Barcelonete, On the beaches of Tarragona The tourist density of almost the feeder: 17,000 tourists per square kilometer.
Barcelona is still Mediterranean jewelThe field but today, more than when, when, you need to breathe.
