Activists have fired water pistols at a tour bus outside one of Barcelona‘s top attractions in a protest against overtourism. Video shows protesters shouting “tourists go home” as they block the bus and squirt water at it in a road near La Sagrada Familia on Sunday (April 27).
A demonstrator told the Reuters news agency: “We are here because we are fed up that tourism is always on top of this economic model.” Campaigners are demanding the holiday hotspot ends its reliance on tourism, calling for the city’s “detouristification”. A banner reading “Turn off the tourist focus” was draped across the front of the bus, which was also plastered with stickers reading “tourism kills the city”.
An unnamed protester told Reuters that activists had…
