Foreign Correspondent on ABC and ABC iview S35E17 – If you’re dreaming of a summer in Spain, you’re not alone. The nation is on track to overtake France as the world’s most visited country with around one hundred million international visitors expected this year. But you may be met with a hostile reception.
Protests and blockades against mass tourism have sprung up across the country with furious locals demanding action to quell the massive hordes of tourists taking over their cities and homes.
On Foreign Correspondent Europe Bureau Chief Mazoe Ford travels to two of the major hotspots – Barcelona and Ibiza. She finds a housing crisis, that many blame on Airbnb and other holiday rentals. She meets essential workers and people servicing the tourism industry who have been priced out of their homes. Others lament their very way of life is being destroyed by the tourists wanting a slice of Spanish life. For them, tourists are loving Spain to death.
While tourism is critical to the Spanish economy, employing more than three million people, many are asking is the cost of such success too high?
Foreign Correspondent on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 19 August at 8.00pm.
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Foreign Correspondent on ABC and ABC iview S35E17
