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Inside Europe: Are tourists taking over Barcelona?

Lauren Frayer
March 31, 2017

With 30 million annual visitors to a city of 1.6 million, is Barcelona being ruined by tourism? The city has banned new hotels and declared war on Airbnb, blamed for driving up real estate prices for locals, and flooding the city with visitors. The mayor says Barcelona risks becoming a Disneyland version of itself, with too many souvenir shops and no local character. Lauren Frayer reports.

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