Growing anger over the growth of tourism has prompted a number of protests in recent months
Barcelona at first light. The Sagrada Familia cathedral is one of the city's many tourist attractions. Photograph: European Architecture City LinesBarcelona’s mayor plans to raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers who visit the city for less than 12 hours as part of his continuing efforts to “tackle the consequences of mass tourism” in the Catalan capital.
In an interview with El País on Sunday, the mayor said he would seek to raise the tax paid by cruise passengers, which is now €7 a day, to ensure the city profited properly from their brief visits.‘We have reached out a hand to our European friends’: Keir Starmer thaws the UK’s European relationshipsThe Spectator’s summer bash is the power party of Westminster and its fuel is champagne
The mayor did not say by how much he was planning to raise the tax, saying only that studies had already been commissioned. Collboni added that the idea of the rise was not to deter cruise visitors but to ensure they paid their way and generated revenue that could be invested in projects such as installing air conditioning in schools.
At the heart of protesters’ grievances is the massively distorting effect that tourism has had on the housing market and on local people’s quality of life in the past few years.
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