Local laws allow companies like Airbnb to thrive. If the govt levies additional tax on Airbnbs, then the problem is solved automatically. The airbnb property is also local. Maybe those apartments should have to pay for licenses to allow being let to tourists. Local laws need to change.
@ There's surely a problem somewhere no bro. that's why all this is happening. And over-tourism is surely a thing. Especially after covid. I agree that If I was a local giving out an apartment for rentals I would not like it, but there is surely a problem with the tourism industry. Alternatively, they can limit the number of tourists coming into the country. That would bring rentals down.
No. Poor governance is the problem. When lots of tourists flock to a country, it’s time to tariff and tax them heavily and use that money to subsidize local housing only. AirBnB is gonna do just fine
Air Bnb is just one small piece of the problem. The laws that govern the tourism sectors need reforms. tourism companies can only take advantage of weak laws to promote their channel, service or product.
AIRBNB is only a platform used for tourist rentals. What creates problems is precisely the tourist rentals in the middle of residential neighborhoods, a high percentage of these rentals It belongs to foreigners who do not even live in Spain and who have joined the new trend of speculating in another country. That is what needs to end.
This is a classic case of Demand vs Supply. Prices increase when demand is much more than what can be provided. Healthy tourism should be promoted. Allowing a certain number of tourists per season will fix the problem. Additional licenses on Airbnbs will also make sure that only tourists who can afford it will visit.
I also live in a tourist town, and airbnb rentals have also shrunk the available rentals for locals and made them more expensive. It's ironic, because all the people in the service industry need to live somewhere, but can't afford the rents on their relatively low wages.
Most tourist rentals belong to foreigners who do not even live in Spain. This practice has become fashionable among foreigners and now everyone wants to make money this way. They are saturating and breaking up society and the tourist rental offer.
I live in Barcelona… it’s true that it’s almost impossible for locals with average wages to get housing for family. Also, in peak tourist seasons it’s crazy, almost like an amusement park.
I lived in Barcelona as well for a time. What amazed me is how low the salaries were and how high the taxes are in Spain. No wonder the Spanish can't afford anything.
I was so lucky to be born in 1957 in Barcelona when the whole world had not a clue that such a beautiful city existed, I remember in summer as a young person that the city was empty since July and august locals will leave to other destinations for vacation
Not worried. I was never a fan of AirBnB/short term rentals. They have become expensive as well and even make you pay for “cleaning” after you leave. I never trash the place i stay for vacay. But i never have to worry about those charges in a hotel. It just says, room rate, maybe breakfast with a fee, resort fee, and that’s it.
I support Spain and anywhere else doing this . Running Businesses ( Hotels ) out of areas Zoned Residential Never should have been allowed to begin with . Get rid of ALL the Hotels being operated out of Residences . There will be a short term hotel room shortage but that will spur investment in new Hotels in areas that Are Business Zoned . Local Citizens will have their neighborhoods and shops back . Hotels will operate like they had before .
@@enjoystraveling Whatever the price range more hotels would be built in areas zoned for them and the local people would have their former places to Live
Thailand has a ban on rentals of condos shorter than 30 days. However, many condo owners still do it because they cannot resist the money. Juristic staff at the condos pretend to enforce the rules by placing signs but the reality is that they actually do nothing. They overlook it and I’ve heard that some take bribes. I’m in Bangkok right now and rented condos for 3 months short term until I found a place to stay longer.
Well, it's a controversial topic. I've traveled a lot around Spain, so I can also talk about this. On the one hand, Spain is not the richest country and it really needs income from tourism, but I understand the residents of Barcelona very well, where there are probably fewer residents than tourists, and there is more theft than anywhere else. I would probably ban Airbnb in such large cities. But what about the owners of houses in numerous villages and small towns in Spain, they also rent them out through Airbnb? And they really need the income from this rent. There is another aspect to this problem. Let's be honest, with the advent of European low-cost airlines and services for renting housing, people with low incomes have been attracted to traveling, naturally this is a different social stratum and unfortunately these are often not the most disciplined representatives of society. So the Spaniards need to decide whether they need a lot of (conditional) drunk Polish or English students or not. For example, in Lloret de Mar, it seems to me they decided to tolerate it and get money. If the people of Barcelona don't want to tolerate this, they should ban low-cost airlines to their city and AirbnB. But they should be prepared for a drop in city budget revenues.
Get rid of AirBnB everywhere in the world. It simply ruins property value. Worse, it makes it difficult for families living in those areas to find suitable rental or home ownership impossible. Add additional taxes to those individuals who don't use their second property as a residential rental or for personal use. Cap rental prices and fine anyone who breaks the laws. Give legit businesses like hotels a discount as a way to discourage them from staying in areas where residents need living space. Without tourism, many will lose valuable source of income.
tourist destinations suffer and locals are at the mercy of those with money. the overuse affects everyone and criminal activity increases with more people, bad behavior, entitled and rude behavior
@@hendrx Hotels are businesses in business areas . AirBnB depletes housing for local citizens . If a hotel wants to build a new hotel go right ahead in a business area . AirBnB needs to go away . Let them book hotel rooms not locals apartments
that is what a passport is!!! this is about stopping people travelling or extracting more money to do so along with alot of prying into your life. They wanted tourist money now they don't!!! Wef agenda yet again
I lived in Barcelona and most of these holiday rental properties were owned by other EU citizens, particularly Germans. I would suspect that non eu residents make up a tiny percentage of the ownership but the media like to focus on a few wealthy Americans.
the gentrification is everywhere. what used to be affordable villas now are bought up by rich and rented out to money, regulations usually come too late. I always say, give it back, use it as a tax write off and give it back as a charity
@ . Who do you think is hoarding the houses?? Its not a supply issue. The problem is wealthy investor exploitation of the middle class by hoarding houses/apartments and driving up the cost of living for the rest of us. Building more houses won't solve anything. Investors will sit on the empty houses to manipulate pricing and prevent you and me from having a comfortable life. Wake up!!
There has been numerous documentaries on how over-tourism has negatively impacted many cities across the world and even the natural environment. The tourism industry doesn’t care about the negative impact of over-tourism and have only focusing on the profits. There are obviously limits that should be in place regarding tourism, the local population should be considered.
We need to think from locals @tourist places... Post pandemic people are travelling like there's no tmrw...a limit is needed and increase the visa fees. Don't give on arrival visas etc. Stay in your country n see your country first. It will boost local economy as well.
Totally empathize with the locals, starting to feel the same pain here in Nova Scotia Canada, did I say starting in full swing. Reclaim your homes and enjoy your own beauty.
@@meansoftolerance It doesnt end there, freakin guards at the airport just scream who what where ? no one knows.... take catalunya n go away... Madrid looks way better and folks there are way more civil.
This is laughable, who is renting and setting those price? Their own people that live there , it's not the tourist set the price there and decide to rent it to the tourist. Look at your own Spain
From a landlords perspective it’s far more attractive and lucrative to rent your property in spain as a holiday let rather than long term rental thanks to Spains laws that favour entirely the tenant and not the landlord. If you have a problem tenant in Spain as a landlord you are screwed. I suspect if many landlords can’t rent short term they will sell up and switch investments.
It's not a tourist ban... They're cutting down on tourist licensees. As it is now, thousands of foreigners are buying apartments/properties solely to rent out to tourists at a crazy high price. This results in no property is being rented out long-term and a lot of apartments being empty when there are no tourists renting them. Meanwhile, normal (non-tourist) residents in Spain can't find affordable housing because everything is turned into tourist rentals. Children live with their parents at the age of 30+, divorced couples can't find new homes and so on. Besides that, acres and acres of land are bought and plastered with new holiday homes, ruining nature and the Spanish beauty. This forces animals like wild boars to roam the streets because their normal habitats have been taken over. What's happening now is much bigger than what this video is about. Spain is not getting poor because of this "ban". Most of the rental economy ends up in countries outside Spain, the way things are right now and Spain is just taking their country back. Cudos...
Also, I think some other posters are correct that there are some foreigners that invest in flats and rent them out short term because they know they can get more money than renting them long-term and the foreigners do not live in them. So it’s basically like they’re running a hotel without the taxes. In my opinion. But I’m not sure if they’re tax or not, but probably not as much as a hotel and I’m wondering if they can even be monitored properly. The answer I think as some other posters wrote is make all short term Airbnb like properties baned in residential and heavily find if they found out.
Most tourist rentals belong to foreign speculators who do not even live in Spain. That is what must be prohibited. They should go and speculate in their own country.
There are some budget hotels in Europe that are built like ibis at the lowest level and others, and it would be more incentive for more budget hotels being built when things like air B&B cannot be used.
Easy: airbnb should be allowed only for rooms in the owners own apartments. Entire home rentals should be taxed differently and only for limited months. Airbnb as whole should be taxed more and money should go to hoods projects. Small local business protected by the city.
There should just be two seperate economies. Tourist prices and local prices, you can force tourist to pay more but not people of your own country, and you have to rent to your own country men before tourist.
Close 100 million tourists last year is 2 foreigner tourist per inhabitant literally no is good ; ban the apps of touristic homes and ban rent touristic hones no the touristicication and gentrification of neighborhoods
Cape town, south africa should do the same. Tourists welcome for 30 days but not longer. We have to jump thru flame hoops to get a visa for most countries, and yet they just waltz in here for up to 12 months
I really wonder how people saying tourism or over tourism is also ruining life for local people. Have you seen how entitled, rude and careless the said tourists act? You know it's bad when the Japanese get collectively and publicly mad.
Before Barcelona Olympics, Spain known as cheap and very cool place to vacation. I had Italian friend, who knew where to go in each city, along coast. In Valencia, she knew of a place that was some sort of religious place, before. It was beautiful. And. Old. Interestingly. There was like a communal shower, lit by natural light, but you could shower any time of day and you'd be alone. There was one other female, sharing the top floor. But. It not a secret Spanish people are not warm and fuzzy people, toward tourists, unless you take part in late night, early morning festival. And then everyone behave their best. One cool thing about spain is the 'brown area,' that your train will travel through. It like being in a Van Gogh painting. It FAR out there. Last thing I would wish on Spain is too many tourists. Probably the ones they can't stand most are the Americans and the Chinese.
In china there are specific hotel for foreigners. Even if you find a shortcut or something and end up booking on the ones just for locals they won't let you in but refund you and foreigner heckles they'll call the police to assist you find another hotel. I used to ask myself why they did that. Didnt know these guys were way ahead of the game. Anyways i have always been a hotel person in countries visited hope spain makes this a priority for its citizens so i doesnt turn into hawaii
@asm3803 skyscrapers are the solution if there is a housing problem. I was just mentioning that Dubai has massive skyscrapers compared to Singapore from what I have seen. You do not hear people in Dubai and Singapore complaining about housing issues.
tourism has become too cheap. in the past you had to save 1 year to travel to europe, now you can just get a ticket an airbnb and go. just raise the taxes on tourists and done.
In future country with most sun light and clean air and water source will be most in livable and they will do same close their boarders for outsiders. We running out of time now
Everybody understandably blames Airbnb for tourism congestion and property prices. And it's partially true. How is it that it took Spain and other countries 10 years to wake up! How slack and useless is their planning if they could not see it coming and stepped in by pro-actively regulating the industry? Spain makes €82 billion annually from tourism. That's huge. It would have make sense if they regulated it in time. But then they've taken thousands of migrants who live for free in Spanish homes. Their water resources have been completely neglected and helped in the depopulation of small towns and it's affecting agriculture negatively. When politicians love the taxes but don't care about the consequences.
@ I think you could tell from my post that I have no desire to go to Spain. I've been and can't understand what all the fuss is about. Totally Overated.
I dont like tourism. Even before the internet and air bnb etc. Tourism will make the cost of living in that area rise compared to non tourist spots. Im from a SEA country with thousands of islands and white sand beaches.
@mysticman9331 yup. Local tourists only no problem. But when foreign tourists come in. Not good for the locals. Like i said they cause local prices to go up.
@@mysticman9331 no need to. I have everything i need in my country. Good sunny weather, tropical vibes, white sand beaches, crystal clear water, healthy coral reefs one of the best in the world, good food. What else to see outside my country?
@ApArt1003 now all your comments make sense. If you are not a traveller than you will be anti tourists. Spain is beautiful I agree but so does the rest of the world. Each country has its unique features. Even the poorest of countries. Some of us want to explore all that.
Also this report flocks because spain city have other situation that make the rent higher and others that drive people into using their property as airbnb like squatting.
Ban on tourism or restricting is a viable option if the public (and government) focuses on strengthening local economy as priority, essentials wrt trade imports over luxury items etc. Not sure how virtual tourism will play out in future and hopefully it is a better option not just for locals but also wrt climate initiatives until then it should help to curb tourism. Will also help to have global mandates on world population control - putting laws factoring in population density by country, religion, race to establish fairness. But again when COPs on climate change are not much of a success- it raises doubts about anything meaningful except reporting
Don’t forget that you pay taxes and that money goes to immigrants, that don’t pay taxes Your government give them place to sleep, money and they don’t tribute to the economy As tourist I pay taxes, buy, contribute to your economy, yes I agree that the house/apartment situation is problematic but! You have so much land that you have place to build more apartments and houses, not everyone need to live in Barcelona, Malaga or Madrid You have beautiful places like Santa pola, Alicante and more
I think we should avoid to go in Spain for holidays and let the local enjoy their place. I don't like to go where I'm not welcome. If a nation is not able to manage tourists it is better that start to question themself...
Airbnb has ruined every major European city.
Local laws allow companies like Airbnb to thrive. If the govt levies additional tax on Airbnbs, then the problem is solved automatically. The airbnb property is also local. Maybe those apartments should have to pay for licenses to allow being let to tourists. Local laws need to change.
@@KalpeshPatel78 Too much work. I go to Spain and the hostals are so cheap and nice, what kind of freak wants to take rentals away from locals?
@ There's surely a problem somewhere no bro. that's why all this is happening. And over-tourism is surely a thing. Especially after covid. I agree that If I was a local giving out an apartment for rentals I would not like it, but there is surely a problem with the tourism industry.
Alternatively, they can limit the number of tourists coming into the country. That would bring rentals down.
And it and it's equivalent has gentrified cities in America as well .
That's also due to Hotels to not offer proper accomodation for tourists.
Airbnb is the problem. Not tourism.
No. Poor governance is the problem. When lots of tourists flock to a country, it’s time to tariff and tax them heavily and use that money to subsidize local housing only. AirBnB is gonna do just fine
Both!
Air Bnb is just one small piece of the problem. The laws that govern the tourism sectors need reforms. tourism companies can only take advantage of weak laws to promote their channel, service or product.
@@mandlas.4305makes sense
AIRBNB is only a platform used for tourist rentals. What creates problems is precisely the tourist rentals in the middle of residential neighborhoods, a high percentage of these rentals It belongs to foreigners who do not even live in Spain and who have joined the new trend of speculating in another country. That is what needs to end.
Don’t blame the tourist that support your economy. Blame the people in your society who are wrongly increasing the charges
blame the tourists too paying that price.. tourists tend to overpay for things because they know its temp and they dont care the effect on locals
Wrongly? Do you not know how demand and supply works?
Don't confuse Spain with a small caribbean country. They don't need you!
This is a classic case of Demand vs Supply. Prices increase when demand is much more than what can be provided. Healthy tourism should be promoted. Allowing a certain number of tourists per season will fix the problem. Additional licenses on Airbnbs will also make sure that only tourists who can afford it will visit.
Refugee from middle east is your problem
I also live in a tourist town, and airbnb rentals have also shrunk the available rentals for locals and made them more expensive. It's ironic, because all the people in the service industry need to live somewhere, but can't afford the rents on their relatively low wages.
Oh. That makes sense. That's sad 😔
Most tourist rentals belong to foreigners who do not even live in Spain. This practice has become fashionable among foreigners and now everyone wants to make money this way. They are saturating and breaking up society and the tourist rental offer.
@susanaescriba977 Well then they should stop non resident ownership of property. Instead of banning tourists. Thailand does this and it works well.
They are not banning tourists, just controlling bnbs licenses. NYC did something similar allowing bnbs only for longer-term rentals.
I live in Barcelona… it’s true that it’s almost impossible for locals with average wages to get housing for family. Also, in peak tourist seasons it’s crazy, almost like an amusement park.
I lived in Barcelona as well for a time. What amazed me is how low the salaries were and how high the taxes are in Spain. No wonder the Spanish can't afford anything.
What a misleading tittle. It's just banning of Airbnb, not tourists. Book a bloody hotel and forget Aribnb.
I was so lucky to be born in 1957 in Barcelona when the whole world had not a clue that such a beautiful city existed, I remember in summer as a young person that the city was empty since July and august locals will leave to other destinations for vacation
Cierto, esa era la Barcelona auténtica.
We have the same problem in Cape town south africa ! Airbnb's are the problem
Not worried. I was never a fan of AirBnB/short term rentals. They have become expensive as well and even make you pay for “cleaning” after you leave. I never trash the place i stay for vacay. But i never have to worry about those charges in a hotel. It just says, room rate, maybe breakfast with a fee, resort fee, and that’s it.
I support Spain and anywhere else doing this . Running Businesses ( Hotels ) out of areas Zoned Residential Never should have been allowed to begin with . Get rid of ALL the Hotels being operated out of Residences . There will be a short term hotel room shortage but that will spur investment in new Hotels in areas that Are Business Zoned . Local Citizens will have their neighborhoods and shops back . Hotels will operate like they had before .
Yes, I’m guessing if they get rid of hotels operated out of residences then there would be more low-cost hotels built plus boutique, hotels built.
@@enjoystraveling Whatever the price range more hotels would be built in areas zoned for them and the local people would have their former places to Live
Thailand has a ban on rentals of condos shorter than 30 days. However, many condo owners still do it because they cannot resist the money. Juristic staff at the condos pretend to enforce the rules by placing signs but the reality is that they actually do nothing. They overlook it and I’ve heard that some take bribes. I’m in Bangkok right now and rented condos for 3 months short term until I found a place to stay longer.
In Thailand anything goes if you have a bit of tea money.
Over tourism is a curse
Well, it's a controversial topic. I've traveled a lot around Spain, so I can also talk about this. On the one hand, Spain is not the richest country and it really needs income from tourism, but I understand the residents of Barcelona very well, where there are probably fewer residents than tourists, and there is more theft than anywhere else. I would probably ban Airbnb in such large cities. But what about the owners of houses in numerous villages and small towns in Spain, they also rent them out through Airbnb? And they really need the income from this rent. There is another aspect to this problem. Let's be honest, with the advent of European low-cost airlines and services for renting housing, people with low incomes have been attracted to traveling, naturally this is a different social stratum and unfortunately these are often not the most disciplined representatives of society. So the Spaniards need to decide whether they need a lot of (conditional) drunk Polish or English students or not. For example, in Lloret de Mar, it seems to me they decided to tolerate it and get money. If the people of Barcelona don't want to tolerate this, they should ban low-cost airlines to their city and AirbnB. But they should be prepared for a drop in city budget revenues.
very well projected and thoughtful comment! btw my DP is from Benalmadena, Malaga, Spain 😅😂🤣..
@@pallavkan I was in Benalmadena too))
Close Airbnb and you solve the issue
It’s not so simple. Something else will just take its place. We live in the era of apps.
who do you work for? how would you feel if someone decided to close the company you work for?
Get rid of AirBnB everywhere in the world. It simply ruins property value. Worse, it makes it difficult for families living in those areas to find suitable rental or home ownership impossible. Add additional taxes to those individuals who don't use their second property as a residential rental or for personal use. Cap rental prices and fine anyone who breaks the laws. Give legit businesses like hotels a discount as a way to discourage them from staying in areas where residents need living space. Without tourism, many will lose valuable source of income.
tourist destinations suffer and locals are at the mercy of those with money. the overuse affects everyone and criminal activity increases with more people, bad behavior, entitled and rude behavior
Could it be possible that perhaps the hotel industry is behind this?
190%
And what's the problem with that? Hotels are there for a reason, use them if you travel.
@ hotels are doing the exact same thing air bnb is, taking advantage of a shortage
@@hendrx Hotels are businesses in business areas . AirBnB depletes housing for local citizens . If a hotel wants to build a new hotel go right ahead in a business area . AirBnB needs to go away . Let them book hotel rooms not locals apartments
Try living here and renting. Then ask the question
If Spain really wants to control the influx of tourists then they should consider requiring visas for all non-citizen inbound travelers.
that is what a passport is!!! this is about stopping people travelling or extracting more money to do so along with alot of prying into your life. They wanted tourist money now they don't!!! Wef agenda yet again
Than other countries will retaliate and want visas for all Spain tourists. Who wins in that game.....
I lived in Barcelona and most of these holiday rental properties were owned by other EU citizens, particularly Germans. I would suspect that non eu residents make up a tiny percentage of the ownership but the media like to focus on a few wealthy Americans.
It is not tourists that are the problem, it’s the property shortage. In particular a used by Airbnb
the gentrification is everywhere. what used to be affordable villas now are bought up by rich and rented out to money, regulations usually come too late. I always say, give it back, use it as a tax write off and give it back as a charity
I hate Airbnb. Have never used it, and I am proud of it. The same with Starbucks, Amazon, Netflix. Don't count on me.
There are plenty of hotels and hostels. Leaves the appartments to locals. Think thats wise
Tourism is not a problem. As a tourist I will stay in a Hotel. Stop Airbnb’s in such cases!
The start of a crackdown on Airbnb...worldwide?
God...everytime housing crisis is mentioned people will blame everything and do everything except for, here it comes: BUILD MORE HOUSES!!!!!
Clueless!
@@MrSupernova111how's it clueless. it's supply vs demand
@ . Who do you think is hoarding the houses?? Its not a supply issue. The problem is wealthy investor exploitation of the middle class by hoarding houses/apartments and driving up the cost of living for the rest of us. Building more houses won't solve anything. Investors will sit on the empty houses to manipulate pricing and prevent you and me from having a comfortable life. Wake up!!
There has been numerous documentaries on how over-tourism has negatively impacted many cities across the world and even the natural environment. The tourism industry doesn’t care about the negative impact of over-tourism and have only focusing on the profits. There are obviously limits that should be in place regarding tourism, the local population should be considered.
Anything for the hotel lobby, and for not building more housing
I don't use airbnb. I use hotels because I am on vacation and want to be service.
I hope it works out for them. Taking it out on the tourists might not be the best idea.
Maybe they need to stop the local greed, not the tourism!
tourist can always rent a hotel room rbnb is a huge problem in greece too
We need to think from locals @tourist places... Post pandemic people are travelling like there's no tmrw...a limit is needed and increase the visa fees. Don't give on arrival visas etc. Stay in your country n see your country first. It will boost local economy as well.
Totally empathize with the locals, starting to feel the same pain here in Nova Scotia Canada, did I say starting in full swing. Reclaim your homes and enjoy your own beauty.
"Tourist ban" In quotes means there is no ban. Period.
Barcelona looks like a 3rd world country at least on their "Best airport", ppl jump line and feel like that's their right.
Haha, have you been to Berlin yet?
@@meansoftolerance Berlin is shite?!
@@meansoftolerance It doesnt end there, freakin guards at the airport just scream who what where ? no one knows.... take catalunya n go away... Madrid looks way better and folks there are way more civil.
People in 'third world' countries DO NOT jump lines. If you do, there's consequences.
@@meansoftolerancereally ? Always thought Germans were more civilised than Southern hot-blood Mediterraneans .
It's not tourists,we all know why Europe is getting overcrowded!
good for them. People are destructive morons. Overcrowding is noisy, dirty and annoying to deal with.
You can’t have your cake and eat it … it’s your own people who escalated prices . It’s called GEEED
This is laughable, who is renting and setting those price? Their own people that live there , it's not the tourist set the price there and decide to rent it to the tourist. Look at your own Spain
Landlords Greed is the problem here🤷♀️
Why not make more tourist hotels?
Great for Spain!
From a landlords perspective it’s far more attractive and lucrative to rent your property in spain as a holiday let rather than long term rental thanks to Spains laws that favour entirely the tenant and not the landlord. If you have a problem tenant in Spain as a landlord you are screwed. I suspect if many landlords can’t rent short term they will sell up and switch investments.
Im good spain..ill spend my money in my own country.
GOOD 👍
Spain was not on my bucket list anyway
Ban Air B&B
We wont go there forever
It's not a tourist ban... They're cutting down on tourist licensees. As it is now, thousands of foreigners are buying apartments/properties solely to rent out to tourists at a crazy high price. This results in no property is being rented out long-term and a lot of apartments being empty when there are no tourists renting them. Meanwhile, normal (non-tourist) residents in Spain can't find affordable housing because everything is turned into tourist rentals. Children live with their parents at the age of 30+, divorced couples can't find new homes and so on.
Besides that, acres and acres of land are bought and plastered with new holiday homes, ruining nature and the Spanish beauty. This forces animals like wild boars to roam the streets because their normal habitats have been taken over. What's happening now is much bigger than what this video is about. Spain is not getting poor because of this "ban". Most of the rental economy ends up in countries outside Spain, the way things are right now and Spain is just taking their country back. Cudos...
Very good
Few hundred years ago, Spain conquered many overseas lands and abused them. This is just payback time!
Cringey kid
True, you're right. The same did England, Portugal, the Dutch and Italy during Roman times.
Stop drinking please...
I don’t blame the Spanish. Beautiful country, but some tourists ruin it for the many.
Also, I think some other posters are correct that there are some foreigners that invest in flats and rent them out short term because they know they can get more money than renting them long-term and the foreigners do not live in them.
So it’s basically like they’re running a hotel without the taxes. In my opinion. But I’m not sure if they’re tax or not, but probably not as much as a hotel and I’m wondering if they can even be monitored properly. The answer I think as some other posters wrote is make all short term Airbnb like properties baned in residential and heavily find if they found out.
In other words, the rich hoteliers get richer while the poor landlord gets poorer.
Most tourist rentals belong to foreign speculators who do not even live in Spain. That is what must be prohibited. They should go and speculate in their own country.
There are some budget hotels in Europe that are built like ibis at the lowest level and others, and it would be more incentive for more budget hotels being built when things like air B&B cannot be used.
Easy: airbnb should be allowed only for rooms in the owners own apartments. Entire home rentals should be taxed differently and only for limited months. Airbnb as whole should be taxed more and money should go to hoods projects. Small local business protected by the city.
Tourist... are causing the "water pipes to burst" ?!?
Good decision
There should just be two seperate economies. Tourist prices and local prices, you can force tourist to pay more but not people of your own country, and you have to rent to your own country men before tourist.
Interesting story. Love Spain, but they are correct about overcrowding and rentals. But then again, that's tourism.
Follow Bhutan model,low volume high value. Banning is not good for businesses. Set a limit on number of tourists.
American Airbnb is the problem.
Its a popular holiday spot because the UK don't get enough sun.
It's lots of other places to visit that have enough sun. I've only visited mainland Spain once and haven't got any plans to return.
They should increase tourism visa fees for non EU citizens, not a ban please!
Crossed the line from click bait to outright lies. Only deep in the video you come to the truth. You're done, channel banned from my account.
Si it's just to encourage to stay in hotels which are impersonal, instead of a homely place!
Good point!! I love Airbnb.
No kitchen either
@@hendrx some hotels do have small kitchens.
@ never seen one and I'm in hotels a lot
Close 100 million tourists last year is 2 foreigner tourist per inhabitant literally no is good ; ban the apps of touristic homes and ban rent touristic hones no the touristicication and gentrification of neighborhoods
Blaming politicians better than Blaming tourists.
The headline is not correct is misleading.you should say may be ..we still can’t go to Spain
Aren't hotel owners doing the exact same?
Cape town, south africa should do the same. Tourists welcome for 30 days but not longer. We have to jump thru flame hoops to get a visa for most countries, and yet they just waltz in here for up to 12 months
I think this goes for almost every European nation. Too many tourists, too pricey everything.
I really wonder how people saying tourism or over tourism is also ruining life for local people. Have you seen how entitled, rude and careless the said tourists act? You know it's bad when the Japanese get collectively and publicly mad.
For 13% of the economy 87% of the population doesn’t need to suffer
RyanAir and other airlines are boosting tourism because it is cheap! They should should increase the flight rates!!
Before Barcelona Olympics, Spain known as cheap and very cool place to vacation. I had Italian friend, who knew where to go in each city, along coast. In Valencia, she knew of a place that was some sort of religious place, before. It was beautiful. And. Old. Interestingly. There was like a communal shower, lit by natural light, but you could shower any time of day and you'd be alone. There was one other female, sharing the top floor. But. It not a secret Spanish people are not warm and fuzzy people, toward tourists, unless you take part in late night, early morning festival. And then everyone behave their best. One cool thing about spain is the 'brown area,' that your train will travel through. It like being in a Van Gogh painting. It FAR out there. Last thing I would wish on Spain is too many tourists. Probably the ones they can't stand most are the Americans and the Chinese.
Imagine if they close tourist for coming to Spain their economy will really hurt the country
"Well I never been to Spain but I kinda like the music "
I love Spain!!
then build housing projects like in Singapore...build skyscrapers for people to live in an affordable way
Send the tourist to the housing projects. I don't want to leave my neighbourhood.
In china there are specific hotel for foreigners. Even if you find a shortcut or something and end up booking on the ones just for locals they won't let you in but refund you and foreigner heckles they'll call the police to assist you find another hotel. I used to ask myself why they did that.
Didnt know these guys were way ahead of the game.
Anyways i have always been a hotel person in countries visited hope spain makes this a priority for its citizens so i doesnt turn into hawaii
If you want to see skyscrapers go to Dubai. Singapore has nothing on Dubai.
@mysticman9331 nobody is talking about skyscrapers.
@asm3803 skyscrapers are the solution if there is a housing problem. I was just mentioning that Dubai has massive skyscrapers compared to Singapore from what I have seen. You do not hear people in Dubai and Singapore complaining about housing issues.
Wrong title.
Frankly I wasn't impressed with Barcelona too crowded with tourist and the food was nasty and Barcelona was too expensive .
Explore and invest Asian Countries...best places to live Now....
In Asia they have the same problems and you said the magic word... investment. Invest in your country.
OverTourism is also a very much Problem here in Japan. Locals can't
Travel anymore due to fully book hotel rooms 😰
Banning Tourists..... OK
But Banning Illegal Immigrants.... NOT OK
What a WOKE(JOKE) 😂😂😂
tourism has become too cheap. in the past you had to save 1 year to travel to europe, now you can just get a ticket an airbnb and go. just raise the taxes on tourists and done.
Only new air bnb? Time to restrict them all. Boom. Problem solved
Spain is poorly managed. You don’t ban tourists. You tariff and tax them and use that money to subsidize local housing.
In future country with most sun light and clean air and water source will be most in livable and they will do same close their boarders for outsiders. We running out of time now
That's odd, I just read that Madrid wants to hold a Formula One race.
Everybody understandably blames Airbnb for tourism congestion and property prices. And it's partially true. How is it that it took Spain and other countries 10 years to wake up! How slack and useless is their planning if they could not see it coming and stepped in by pro-actively regulating the industry? Spain makes €82 billion annually from tourism. That's huge. It would have make sense if they regulated it in time. But then they've taken thousands of migrants who live for free in Spanish homes. Their water resources have been completely neglected and helped in the depopulation of small towns and it's affecting agriculture negatively. When politicians love the taxes but don't care about the consequences.
Why go to Spain when there is Florida. Warmer in winter and they all speak English
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Very true.
Yes! Very true. So stay there, and don't even think about coming here please. Thank you!
@ I think you could tell from my post that I have no desire to go to Spain. I've been and can't understand what all the fuss is about. Totally Overated.
I dont like tourism. Even before the internet and air bnb etc. Tourism will make the cost of living in that area rise compared to non tourist spots.
Im from a SEA country with thousands of islands and white sand beaches.
So you don't like traveling as well????
@mysticman9331 yup. Local tourists only no problem. But when foreign tourists come in. Not good for the locals. Like i said they cause local prices to go up.
@@ApArt1003 do you ever travel to other countries,?
@@mysticman9331 no need to. I have everything i need in my country. Good sunny weather, tropical vibes, white sand beaches, crystal clear water, healthy coral reefs one of the best in the world, good food. What else to see outside my country?
@ApArt1003 now all your comments make sense. If you are not a traveller than you will be anti tourists. Spain is beautiful I agree but so does the rest of the world. Each country has its unique features. Even the poorest of countries. Some of us want to explore all that.
A "non-tourist trap apartment", how romantic.
Also this report flocks because spain city have other situation that make the rent higher and others that drive people into using their property as airbnb like squatting.
It’s a problem of air b n b
Good move⭐
Ban on tourism or restricting is a viable option if the public (and government) focuses on strengthening local economy as priority, essentials wrt trade imports over luxury items etc. Not sure how virtual tourism will play out in future and hopefully it is a better option not just for locals but also wrt climate initiatives until then it should help to curb tourism. Will also help to have global mandates on world population control - putting laws factoring in population density by country, religion, race to establish fairness. But again when COPs on climate change are not much of a success- it raises doubts about anything meaningful except reporting
Don’t forget that you pay taxes and that money goes to immigrants, that don’t pay taxes
Your government give them place to sleep, money and they don’t tribute to the economy
As tourist I pay taxes, buy, contribute to your economy, yes I agree that the house/apartment situation is problematic but! You have so much land that you have place to build more apartments and houses, not everyone need to live in Barcelona, Malaga or Madrid
You have beautiful places like Santa pola, Alicante and more
I think we should avoid to go in Spain for holidays and let the local enjoy their place. I don't like to go where I'm not welcome. If a nation is not able to manage tourists it is better that start to question themself...
Emphasis on first syllable with Málaga.
Tourists still have hotels.
Sounds like you're given a lecture instead of telling the news
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