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Barcelona mayor introduces one-year ban on new tourist accommodation
Thursday, July 2, 2015 11:11
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The city of Barcelona will not grant a single license for new tourist accommodation in the next 12 months, Mayor Ada Colau announced on Thursday morning.
The move affects hotels, hostels, B&Bs, rental homes and all other businesses that offer beds for visitors to the city. The previous mayor, Xavier Trias of the Catalan nationalist Convergència party, had only imposed this license ban on rental apartments.
The move had been widely anticipated, as Colau, a former social activist who ran for mayor as leader of the Barcelona en Comú leftist bloc, had made statements in the past about the need to rationalize the huge influx of tourists to the Catalan capital …. http://elpais.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/07/barcelona-mayor-introduces-one-year-ban.html
