Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment Barcelona, last year: OMG there's too many farking tourists somebody get these asshats OUT OF HERE. Barcelona, this year: OMG where are the farking tourists don't they know they make up most of our economy? Get those asshats in here (cnn.com) More: Facepalm, Tourism, United States, Madrid, Cruise ship, Barcelona, Europe, Spain, 1992 Summer Olympics 667 clicks;posted toMain »on 22 Mar 2025 at2:14 PM(1 hour ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 42 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (2) Funniest 3 hours ago Practical_Draconian (12) Funniest 2 hours ago Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. (13) Funniest Or maybe it's different people complaining about each problem. Does OP really think that in a city of 1.6 million people, everybody has the same opinion about everything? Or anything? question_dj (8) Funniest Currently a tourist among tourists, and I can say that he vast majority of tourists suck. Especially the English olds. JFC. stevenvictx (2) Funniest Sounds like Hollywood Your group of people are all racist, sexist, ...." This group of people we trashed not watching our movies, Why ? AmbassadorBooze (4) Funniest Tourism just means fossil carbon poison is being spewed into the Gaiasphere. Unless they are eighth level vegans and they walked there while photosynthesizing their energy. Problem solved. Save the Gaiasphere by having a staycation. (7) Funniest As someone who grew up in a tourist town favored by obnoxious Texans, I can tell you there is zero contradiction here. Embracing ambivalence is the name of the game. (9) Funniest Practical_Draconian: Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. Yeah, American tourism and hospitality is about to tank. Dodo David (0) Funniest Meh. Nobody goes to Barcelona anymore. It is too crowded there. (4) Funniest stevenvictx: Sounds like Hollywood Your group of people are all racist, sexist, ...." This group of people we trashed not watching our movies, Why ? (3) Funniest Same story in virtually every tourist attraction, repeated over and over again: 1. I can't stand the tourists clogging transport, making it hard to visit the museum on a quiet day, being asses, making a mess, and driving up prices. 2. I like nice roads, museums, and potentially a job that only has value supporting part of a tourist attraction. 3. But fark they're a pain in the ad nauseum. ParallelUniverseParking (0) Funniest 35 minutes ago Nobody wants to vacate anymore. (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago Magnus Eisengrim (1) Funniest 34 minutes ago Fereals: Practical_Draconian: Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. Yeah, American tourism and hospitality is about to tank. BitwiseShift (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago It was about locals getting priced out of housing and shelter. That will be solved when it becomes normal to move the poor and minorities to Somalia, thanks to the pioneering work of the governments of Israel and the US. NM Volunteer (4) Funniest 32 minutes ago Jensaarai: As someone who grew up in a tourist town favored by obnoxious Texans, I can tell you there is zero contradiction here. Embracing ambivalence is the name of the game. Texas tourists are annoying, but as long as they remain tourists, I can just be annoyed at them (and enjoy the quiet evenings when they go back to Texas or go to hotel rooms). It's when they buy houses here that they become actual problems. buravirgil (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago Enigmamf: Or maybe it's different people complaining about each problem. Does OP really think that in a city of 1.6 million people, everybody has the same opinion about everything? Or anything? No, that's applied to China, conservatives, and vegetarians. Samfucious (7) Funniest 34 minutes ago Fereals: Practical_Draconian: Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. Yeah, American tourism and hospitality is about to tank. With any luck, this will crash the air-bnb market. (1) Funniest 33 minutes ago (4) Funniest 33 minutes ago Nullav: Same story in virtually every tourist attraction, repeated over and over again: 1. I can't stand the tourists clogging transport, making it hard to visit the museum on a quiet day, being asses, making a mess, and driving up prices. 2. I like nice roads, museums, and potentially a job that only has value supporting part of a tourist attraction. 3. But fark they're a pain in the ad nauseum. Using numbers from the article, 4.5 million tourists stayed overnight in Barcelona in 2004. 15.5 million tourists stayed overnight in Barcelona in 2024. The news articles may sound the same, but the real story on the ground is very different. (3) Funniest 33 minutes ago Enigmamf: Or maybe it's different people complaining about each problem. Does OP really think that in a city of 1.6 million people, everybody has the same opinion about everything? Or anything? When we anthropomorphize something, it becomes one person. (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago Dodo David: Meh. Nobody goes to Barcelona anymore. It is too crowded there. (2) Funniest 32 minutes ago Subby's headline sounds like current GOP gotcha whining. There's no indication that tourists are shying away from visiting Spain or its cities. As the article notes, it's not tourist season yet. And every tourist board's job is to reimagine how to represent its region as perceptions and offerings change. Can something be done locally to limit residents from being overwhelmed or priced out of their neighborhoods? Possibly. Is there a healthy balance between tourism and residents? There can be. It's the age old question since tourism became thing. We limit entry into national parks so as not to damage the beauty of the landscape not disrupt the delicate ecology of the environment. Townies vs. tourists. Wasn't that the underlying cautionary tale of "Jaws"? That the mayor overlooked the clear danger to everyone at the expense of making money? Again, this is right-wing gaslighting. Not interested in solutions to real concerns, always playing a game of gotcha to inculcate the ideology that bigger profits take precedence at everyone else's expense. pastramithemosterotic (0) Funniest 36 minutes ago If they want to cover my expenses I'll go over for a week and help the numbers (1) Funniest 34 minutes ago They say the ladies are insane there (2) Funniest 33 minutes ago NM Volunteer: Jensaarai: As someone who grew up in a tourist town favored by obnoxious Texans, I can tell you there is zero contradiction here. Embracing ambivalence is the name of the game. Texas tourists are annoying, but as long as they remain tourists, I can just be annoyed at them (and enjoy the quiet evenings when they go back to Texas or go to hotel rooms). It's when they buy houses here that they become actual problems. Yeah, this was the problem in my quaint little mountain "village" with the "noisy river" in my part of our state. I'm sure that's enough clues for you to know which one I'm talking about. They loved to buy cabins up there and wield considerable political influence over local matters. One time the town had a plan to build a rec center to give the local teens something to do besides getting drunk in the forest and wrapping their cars around some pine trees. Whole thing would be paid for by grants -- no raise in property taxes -- as had been mandated by the outside cabin owners. Even then, they still wielded influence to kill it because "it might spoil the view." But again, without the tourists the whole town would dry up and blow away. I mean, it's still doing that with all the fires, but that's mostly a climate change deal. (1) Funniest 33 minutes ago Local people don't like tourist. Local companies do like tourist. Hum? Sounds like those companies don't employee enough locals and probably live out of town? Typical fark head business owners. (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago bzdrummer: Dodo David: Meh. Nobody goes to Barcelona anymore. It is too crowded there. [Fark user image image 425x318] Dammit too late again (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago Enigmamf: Or maybe it's different people complaining about each problem. Does OP really think that in a city of 1.6 million people, everybody has the same opinion about everything? Or anything? The people in charge and who own businesses aren't locals. Or don't give a fark about their neighbors? This isn't complicated. This is no different than anything else. The masses get farked by a small percentage of money and or power people, because money is more important than your neighbors. (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago Farking tourists ruined the place last time I visited (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago Practical_Draconian: Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. ? Maybe, maybe not. People still go to Mardi gras despite the cops cracking down on everything that Mardi gras famous for. And didn't spring break City in Florida crack down ? Haven't heard them cry. Apparently the only people that cared were the bars and motels. (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago Fereals: Practical_Draconian: Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. Yeah, American tourism and hospitality is about to tank. Hope not. San Antonio doesn't do fark else. Swiss Colony (2) Funniest 33 minutes ago I live just outside Barcelona, close enough to be on the same metro service. Whilst tourism obviously helps, Barcelona in no way relies upon it. The issue, as noted, is that tourism affects accommodation for inhabitants. Airbnb will no longer be allowed (by 2026 I believe) for complete flats, only room within a domicile. At the moment living in the centre is impossible for people who work here. (1) Funniest 32 minutes ago Nullav: Same story in virtually every tourist attraction, repeated over and over again: 1. I can't stand the tourists clogging transport, making it hard to visit the museum on a quiet day, being asses, making a mess, and driving up prices. 2. I like nice roads, museums, and potentially a job that only has value supporting part of a tourist attraction. 3. But fark they're a pain in the ad nauseum. ? I'll never understand why tourist towns do up prices and give local a break by checking their zip code or a discount card baron von doodle (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago question_dj: Currently a tourist among tourists, and I can say that he vast majority of tourists suck. Especially the English olds. JFC. That's just British tradition. They don't have their empire anymore, but they can still travel the globe and abuse the natives. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago I travel often but I hate places packed with tourists. Seeing David or the Mona Lisa or the Blarney stone or whatever could be fun but I prefer to visit places and cultures. I enjoy staying on the fringes and eating with the locals. I spend hours in museums and talk to the docents. Otherwise, a beach is a beach, a zip line is a zip line. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago waxbeans: Nullav: Same story in virtually every tourist attraction, repeated over and over again: 1. I can't stand the tourists clogging transport, making it hard to visit the museum on a quiet day, being asses, making a mess, and driving up prices. 2. I like nice roads, museums, and potentially a job that only has value supporting part of a tourist attraction. 3. But fark they're a pain in the ad nauseum. ? I'll never understand why tourist towns do up prices and give local a break by checking their zip code or a discount card That's how it works in Florida. Instead of a discount. We pay the advertised shot for car rentals, hotels, attractions etc.. if you are out of state or country, you get slapped with a pretty heavy tax. (0) Funniest 2 minutes ago mopar1956: waxbeans: Nullav: Same story in virtually every tourist attraction, repeated over and over again: 1. I can't stand the tourists clogging transport, making it hard to visit the museum on a quiet day, being asses, making a mess, and driving up prices. 2. I like nice roads, museums, and potentially a job that only has value supporting part of a tourist attraction. 3. But fark they're a pain in the ad nauseum. ? I'll never understand why tourist towns do up prices and give local a break by checking their zip code or a discount card That's how it works in Florida. Instead of a discount. We pay the advertised shot for car rentals, hotels, attractions etc.. if you are out of state or country, you get slapped with a pretty heavy tax. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago No, that didn't happen. Certain people in the media (and sites like Fark) decided to really push an agenda, for some reason. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Fereals: Practical_Draconian: Headline for Anaheim and some other American cities next year. Yeah, American tourism and hospitality is about to tank. Especially the destinations previously popular with the Canadians (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Coming soon to a US state near you. Alien Robot (0) Funniest less than a minute ago stevenvictx: Sounds like Hollywood Your group of people are all racist, sexist, ...." This group of people we trashed not watching our movies, Why ? Or Democrats: "Why won't you racist, sexist, transphobic Nazis vote for us?" Displayed 42 of 42 comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest Redisplay/refresh comments If you're having problems voting, quoting, or posting comments, try disabling any browser add-ons that might disable Javascript (NoScript, AdBlock, etc).See our FAQ. Forgot password? 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