Tourists enjoying a nice meal in one of the world’s most popular cities have been attacked by locals as overtourism reaches boiling point.
Footage shared by the BBC on Monday shows tourists at a number of different restaurants being hounded out by locals in the hugely-popular Spanish city, Barcelona.
Furious locals sprayed tourists with water pistols. Picture: Supplied
One wet tourist dashed away. Picture: Supplied
In the vision, visitors to the city can be seen packing their things and leaving as they are squirted with water pistols by a huge crowd that descended on the most popular tourist areas.
About 2800 locals took part in the protest and marched under the slogan “Enough! Let’s put limits on tourism” and held banners proclaiming “Barcelona not for sale” and “Tourists go home”.
Protests against mass tourism have multiplied in recent months across Spain, the world’s second-most visited country. Picture: Josep LAGO/AFP
Demonstrators protest in front of a bar-restaurant. Picture: Josep LAGO/AFP
Two women during a demonstration against mass tourism. Picture: Lorena Sopena/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM.
It comes after officials in the European city announced they would hike their daily tourist charge for the second time this year.
