EXPATS have expressed outrage after locals in a popular Catalan city demanded that the town hall ‘create a list of foreign residents’ to counter an ‘overflow of tourism’.
Residents in Girona, a medieval walled city 100 km northeast of Barcelona, have formed the ‘Platform for the reduction of tourists in Girona’, an activist group calling for a number of measures to be introduced to reduce levels of tourist activity in the area.
The group, speaking at a press conference on Thursday, called on local authorities to implement urgent measures to dissuade tourism, saying that mass tourism was a ‘death sentence for neighbourhoods’ and that Girona had ‘reached its limit’.
They proposed that the local council increases the number of patrols that search for illegal tourist apartments.
The group also suggested that Girona’s authorities create a list of all foreign residents living within the city, provoking outrage from expats on social media.
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