Photo: Protests Against Airbnb and Tourism in Prague

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Several dozen people gathered on Old Town Square on Saturday to protest for greater regulation of Airbnb and against mass tourism in the capital. After initial speeches, the activists organized a taped football match, in which the Prague team faced off against the Airbnb team. The latter tried to bribe the referees and cheat in all sorts of ways in the game, with the organizers trying to point out the unequal conditions in the housing market.

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The reason for the excessive number of tourists in some places in the Czech Republic is mainly neglected infrastructure. If the construction of highways, railways or bicycle paths were accelerated, tourists would travel more even outside the most desirable destinations, said the president of the Czech Trade and Tourism Association, Tomáš Prouza. However, according to him, the problem is also the long-term underfinancing of tourism development in…

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"What we reject is the current form of tourism - deregulated, commercialized and purely profit-oriented," said one of the organizers. According to them, the protesters are not against individual tourists, but they are bothered by the fact that tourism exerts great pressure on housing and rental prices, which turns city districts into open-air museums for tourists and takes away public space from locals. According to the organizers, holding the p…

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Prague - Several dozen people protested against mass tourism on Old Town Square in Prague. They criticized that tourism puts pressure on housing prices. The event was organized by the organization Kolektiv 115 and took the form of a football match between the Prague team and Airbnb. The protesters also emphasized that while millions of tourists are heading to Prague, there is no place in Europe for tens of thousands of refugees and migrants.