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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Third of people in Spain say local area has too many foreign tourists

People protest against mass tourism on the island of Mallorca, July 2024.
People protest against mass tourism on the island of Mallorca, July 2024. Photograph: Reuters

A third of people in Spain say their local area now has too many international visitors, according to a continent-wide survey that has found most people across Europe are sympathetic to protests against overtourism and back steps to combat it.

The YouGov survey comes after a summer of demonstrations and urgent warnings against the impact of mass tourism from Santorini to the Canary Islands, and measures aimed at reducing it announced from the Cinque Terre to Amsterdam.

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