As the commissioner for sustainable tourism, José Antonio Donaire’s job is to diminish the impact of the nearly 16 million ...

The best time to visit Barcelona is from May to June, when balmy temperatures in the low to mid-70s mesh with a flurry of ...

The war on tourism is starting anew, with Covid-19 quarantines officially in the rearview window. Anti-travel attacks have been common in 2024, from the spray painting of a pair of private jets at ...

Last year, a few weeks after visiting the Spanish island of Mallorca, I watched a television report about residents of ...

If you have visited Barcelona recently, you might have noticed something unusual going on. Since the early summer, central hotspots such as La Rambla and neighbourhoods such as Gracia and Parc Guell ...

Local officials in Catalonia have decided to raise the tourism tax substantially, meaning visitors to Barcelona will have to cough up more cash. How much more tourists will have to pay depends on the ...

The “Visit Barcelona” slogan is set to become a thing of the past. Amid growing anti-tourism protests, the Barcelona Tourism office has decided it’s time for a new approach. The city’s new motto will ...

Barcelona officials plan to ban short-term tourist apartment rentals by 2028, mirroring policies that have bubbled up across Europe in recent years. “We are confronting what we believe is Barcelona’s ...

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