The city's mayor announces the move weeks after protesters sprayed tourists with water pistols and taped up the exits to hotels as part of demonstrations there.
Barcelona is set to 'substantially' raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting the city for less than 12 hours. It comes as anti-tourism protests have taken place across parts of Spain in recent weeks. Jaume Collboni, the mayor of Barcelona, has confirmed the charge will be increasing but hasn't said by how much. The tourist tax for stopover cruise passengers is currently €7 . Mr Collboni said in an interview with El Pais newspaper: 'We are going to propose...
He announced last month that Barcelona will bar apartment rentals to tourists by 2028, an unexpectedly drastic move as it seeks to rein in soaring housing costs and make the city liveable for residents. Barcelona received more than 12 million tourists in 2023 and expects more in 2024.
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