Changing face of Sitges
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Incoming Barcelona mayor wants to introduce tourist cap
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/
11643802/Incoming-Barcelona-mayor-wants-to-introduce-tourist-cap.html
Ada Colau hopes to:
- Limit the number of tourists visiting Barcelona
- city-wide freeze on new hotels & apartments
- Implement an entry cap
Barcelona Tourism
- 2000: 3.14 million visited
- 2013; 7.57 million visited
- 6 million non-Spaniards
- Moratorium regarding new hotels & tourist apartments
- Carry out a census
- Create a preventive policy
- Barcelona has become a city-break destination
- Rowdy behaviour causing backlash among residents of the city’s central districts
- Fuelled by unlicensed rental flats
We have already asked for Sitges tourist figures