Around the world there’s a similar ongoing phenomenon: communities that depend on Tourism income are getting slowly massacred by the excessive number of visitors. In many tourist hotspots, the local citizens also face a housing crisis with rising rents – not to talk about pollution. Now, they are planning ‘to disrupt airports, tour buses, and popular attractions,’ with placards and even water pistols. A coalition of activists called the ‘Southern Europe Network Against Touristification’ has announced a day of protests on June 15. New York Post reported: “’The goal is not to attack individuals but to draw attention to the social and environmental toll tourism is taking on our cities’, one unnamed organizer from Lisbon told EU Today. ‘We are being squeezed out of our…
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