Barcelona recently made headlines when 3,000 people went on the streets to protest the massive ‘touristification’ of their city and its negative consequences. The demonstrators turned their rage directly against visitors by spraying them with water guns and firing crackers at hotel doors.
In response, the Barcelona hotel guild has released a statement saying it found these types of provocations “unacceptable” because they damaged the image of the Catalan capital as a “welcoming city”.
