Overtourism in Barcelona and its effect on urbanism - Life-Sized Travel

Mikael presents an excerpt from the S03 episode of The Life-Sized City in Barcelona about the massive challenges cities face because of overtourism. Pre-pandemic, the city saw over 30 million tourists a year - as many as travel to Greece - and Mikael interviews the local activist from ABTS, Martí Cuso Coll about efforts being made to force policy changes that benefit the locals - instead of only the tourism industry.

It's about how destructive overtourism is, how NOT to use a tourist tax, cruise ships polluting cities and locals being pushed out of the most basic aspects of life in their own city.

A cautionary tale as we look towards post-pandemic travel patterns. This episode is a part of the developing brand called Life-Sized Travel.

Links Mikael mentions in the introduction:

Gadekamp 6 episodes:
https://www.tv2lorry.dk/gadekamp/gade...

Life-Sized City urbanism podcast:
  / the-life-sized-city-season-1  

100 Things I'll Miss When I'm Dead
https://100things.buzzsprout.com/

Aux vélos citoyens ! Danish urban design exhibition:
https://www.colville-andersen.com/aux...
https://lebicolore.dk/aux-velos-citoyens

The cyclist garbage can is produced in Denmark by:
http://g9.dk

Citychangers.org
https://citychangers.org/

0:00 Introduction
3:21 Overtourism in Barcelona