Prozentsatz der Häuser, die für Touristenverleih in Spanien von der Gemeinde verwendet wurden

Interesting map. I was in Gdańsk once. There is an island which is full of newly built apartments near the city centre. Literally almost every home was used as a home for tourists, even next to hotel,s as hotels ara e more expensive option

So it’s basically a map of popular tourist destinations? (not being snarky, genuinely asking)

Really now? In Spain can tourists rent?

If you overlay this with a population density map… With the exception of Madrid pretty much all of populated Spain has a tourist rental problem.

I know a rich family (from one of the northeastern European countries) who bought a house in Malaga and use it intermittently for holidays. I believe that sort of behavior is quite popular among the rich elite in the European countries with crappy winter weather.

In the case of the origin country I mentioned, this climate escapism is widespread enough amongst the well-off to merit opening a local school for their children there.

Are locals in Spain worried about that kind of tourism as well? Or since these people are generally rich and well behaved, the hate doesn’t extend to them?

Very interesting that you can see the outline of Central System mountains just by Madrid

And this is just the tourist rentals, but there is also a huge percentage of homes in touristic areas being bought up by richer foreigners as vacation homes. And that´s also a problem for the local buyers that usually don´t have the same purchasing power.

As someone who grew up in one tourist trap (Cornwall) and moved to another by misfortune (Baltic Coast in Germany) and then ultimately ended up in yet another (spa town reliant on health tourism), I will openly state that tourists are a fucking plague.

Apart from the inherent issues (clogging up the roads, artificial rent inflation caused by hijacking of property for tourist rentals, neglect of essential infrastructure by public authorities in favour of investments in tourism), it’s insane how many tourists seem to leave their manners at home and believe that the locals exist as an extended service of their holiday package, including a frequent complete disregard for road and parking laws.

That’s not to say I don’t visit other places myself, but I’m always very mindful that I’m a guest in the hometown of other people, and I avoid behaving in the ways that I frequently observe. You’d be amazed how many people seem to believe that a town or city exists solely for tourist amusement.

Someone else has mentioned here that the values in this map only represent declared holiday accommodation, and this is a similar problem here in Germany: coastal town authorities often have officials specifically assigned for sniffing out unlicensed holiday accommodation, and there’s a major problem with landlords abusing the „Eigenbedarfskündigung“ principle (where a landlord can evict tenants for what is intended to be a very limited number of cases of own-use requirements) and then re-letting properties as holiday accommodation.

Double points for landlords that are usually just major letting companies situated in major cities with holiday apartments all over the country, putting paid to the myth that tourism „brings in revenue to the region“.

Just to add to your point – and i am pretty sure that something similar is going on in Spain – in our capital city – according to the electric distributer – there 50.000 flats / apartments ( average 80 sqm big) that were built and sold and had never spent a single kWh of electricity – meaning no one ever lived there for any reason.( that is 14,5 % of all residential units available in the city).

And the prices are ofcourse rising..

Is this another “actually population density map” thing?

Hello Spain, we’re sorry for the downsides of tourism.

WE REALLY LOVE YOU!!