Eoghan Corry: Why tourists aren't that welcome any more

A tourist snaps a panorama of Barcelona from Park Guell, next to graffiti daubed by the anti-tourism movement. A small number of participants in one recent protest sprayed water on tourists, and authorities fear such actions could escalate further. Picture: Josep Lago /AFP/Getty
Two things are becoming clear from recent protests against tourism.

Last Saturday, protesters squirted water at tourists in Barcelona. If the water guns of Las Ramblas boulevard are replaced by paint guns, the tour operators and tourists themselves will rethink.



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• Eoghan Corry is a travel writer

Rome has restricted access to the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps.
A no-selfie zone has been imposed in Portofino, a prohibition on flip-flops or sandals on the paths above the Cinque Terre (five villages in Liguria), on eating snacks on four central streets in Florence, on sitting on Rome’s Spanish Steps, or on building sandcastles on a beach in Eraclea.
Walking 'naked or half-naked' has been prohibited through the streets of Calvià or Palma de Mallorca and its beach.
Unauthorised ball games and playing loud music prohibited on beaches, as is camping outside campsites.
Dubrovnik has initiated a luggage drop-off system to minimise the noise of wheeled suitcases. Compulsory lockers are planned by the city.