Claudio Milano, Antonio Paulo Russo, Marina Novelli - The social movement against 'touristification' in Barcelona - Brave New Europe

WAR ON ‘OVER-TOURISM’: Coalition of European Activists Calls for a Day of Protests on June 15th - ‘Southern Europe Network Against Touristification’ Wants to ‘Save Their Communities’

Around the world there’s a similar ongoing phenomenon: communities that depend on Tourism income are getting slowly massacred by the excessive number of visitors.

Claudio Milano, Antonio Paulo Russo, Marina Novelli - The social movement against 'touristification' in Barcelona - Brave New Europe

Social movements against the tourist industry’s takeover of cities in Europe are on the rise. Claudio Milano is a Ramon y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. Since 2021 he is the Co-Deputy Chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism for the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). Antonio Paolo Russo is Professor of Urban Geography and S…