Overview

• Activists from Southern Europe against Touristification have planned protests in Barcelona, Palma, Ibiza, Venice, Lisbon and other destinations to demand sustainable tourism policies.
• Protesters highlight rising housing costs, overcrowding and precarious working conditions in the tourism sector as drivers of local discontent.
• Demonstrators intend to revive attention-grabbing tactics like spraying tourists with water pistols to underscore overtourism’s social toll.
• Spain’s government has imposed mandatory registration for vacation rentals and ordered Airbnb to remove 65,000 unregistered listings.
• Barcelona officials plan to phase out short-term rentals by 2028 as they balance tourism’s economic contribution with residents’ quality of life.