Summer 2024 saw angry locals attack tourists with toy water pistols to protest about being squeezed out of their own city.

Tourism supplies 14 percent of Barcelona’s gross domestic product ... the novel’s needs often prevailing over those of my body. On better days, I knew it was the privilege of my life ...

Thousands of protesters marched through Barcelona over the weekend to express anger at mass tourism and its impacts on Spain's most visited city. Bystanders dining in restaurants in the popular La ...

Yet as pictures of the incident spread globally, the firepower of those toy weapons soon became apparent. Barcelona’s longstanding tensions over the city’s transformation into a tourist ...