I've heard tourist information is hard to find in Barcelona.
I'd be more concerned about those who drive vans up Las Ramblas deliberately killing people......(was there a thread about that?)
The case for choosing somewhere else just keeps building, doesn't it?
Paris, Nice, London? Think I'd prefer the Catalans.
...of course, if you hear a faint sound of dueling banjos, it might be wise to paddle a little faster!
Absolutely. We feel as safe or safer in European cities as we do in many US cities.
Tourism keeps expanding: it's too easy to get there, relatively safe and cheap
If 'they' are enough to make the news, it's probably too many...
I'd like to see that data. Overall murder/crime rate is pretty meaningless if the locals are mainly murdering each other vs. outsiders.I don't worry about traveling in Europe. Europe is very safe compared to most of the world including the US!
Let me know when people start attacking each other. That's war.The crisis is getting bigger, closer to civil war.
The EU is not inclined to get involved at all and the Spain Central government against Catalan independence. I don’t see how another country will be created.This could make another country to visit for those that are counting countries visited
I've lots of anti-tourist graffiti in big European cities. Most is aimed at AirBnB renting apartments to tourists rather than locals.
There is a lot of anti-AirBnB sentiment here, too, especially down in the Faubourg Marigny (next to the French Quarter). People feel that there is so much of it, that it is breaking up their historic neighborhoods I guess, and turning the Marigny into one big tourist rental conglomerate instead of a neighborhood. For a while the city council was thinking of banning short term rentals like that (which would benefit the big hotels so that's another factor in the mix). But I don't know what ever happened with that and there are still AirBnB's. This is still unresolved AFAIK.
They were talking about doing that here, too, so maybe that was how it was resolved. I think it makes sense.My city has decided that Airbnb owners first must get a city business license. They can rent out a room in a home they occupy, but if they rent out the entire place on a short term basis, then they are essentialy running a hotel type business in a area that is zoned residential. In other words, it's illegal.