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> Plus how do they know those are tourists and not native Spaniards? I can't speak for Spain, but it's obvious most of the time in other places. There's differ
by crispyambulance 2y ago
> Plus how do they know those are tourists and not native Spaniards?
I can't speak for Spain, but it's obvious most of the time in other places. There's differences in the way they dress, their behaviors, the open tour maps, the snapping of pictures, the fact that they're often clumped together and arrive in tour buses-- and this is repeated over and over again with the same pattern, day after day.
The air-bnb tourists, I think, are less noticeable. There's certainly a lot of them but they are distributed around the city and they tend to NOT group together to mob any one place. These tourists are likely to avoid the standard "tourist traps".
Which type of tourist is the kind that inspires resentment from natives? I'm not so sure. The air-bnb tourists, in large-enough numbers, can cause rents to jack-up and THAT certainly hurts the locals. The tour-bus crowds, on the other hand, are more obvious and certainly change the optics of certain places. This eventually leads to the swallowing up of whole blocks with baubble shops and bad restaurants-- but only in certain contained areas and at certain times.