Fed-up residents have put hostile messages calling for tourists to “go home” on the outside of buildings around the centre of Malaga.
The notes first appeared after a bar owner, known as Dani Drunko, suggested the idea of putting a twist on the apartment signs on buildings with some different phrases.
Mr Drunko, who owns a bar on Ramón Franquelo Street, told Malaga news site Sur that he was kicked out of the house he had been living in for 10 years after he was not allowed to renew his contract because it was being adapted for tourist rentals.
After initiating the idea of adding stickers to the apartments, Mr Drunko said the community got involved in a “very creative” way, but admitted “this has got out of hand”.
The provincial secretary of the PSOE, Dani Pérez, encouraged the idea as he wrote on X: “Before this was Centro, as this sticker next to several tourist flats says.
But local lawyer Juan Luis Gomez criticised the campaign, adding: “The same people who are against tourism then want work, as if we depended here for our livelihoods on the aerospace industry.
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We are spending our vacations in our adopted country every year and Málaga is by far one of the most tourist-y places in spain, and not a great example of how amazing this country is unless you take the train to the local towns.
Every restaurant/bar etc. staff speak English, Dutch, German, French, there are cruise ships that dock there so its a huge influx of tourists for lunch/dinner times.
It felt like a giant strip mall, with very little personality.
Gentrification (?) is happening quickly here in the tourist hot spots and we see a lot of locals being pushed out of town centers because of costs & availability.
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Fed-up residents have put hostile messages calling for tourists to “go home” on the outside of buildings around the centre of Malaga.
The notes first appeared after a bar owner, known as Dani Drunko, suggested the idea of putting a twist on the apartment signs on buildings with some different phrases.
Mr Drunko, who owns a bar on Ramón Franquelo Street, told Malaga news site Sur that he was kicked out of the house he had been living in for 10 years after he was not allowed to renew his contract because it was being adapted for tourist rentals.
After initiating the idea of adding stickers to the apartments, Mr Drunko said the community got involved in a “very creative” way, but admitted “this has got out of hand”.
The provincial secretary of the PSOE, Dani Pérez, encouraged the idea as he wrote on X: “Before this was Centro, as this sticker next to several tourist flats says.
But local lawyer Juan Luis Gomez criticised the campaign, adding: “The same people who are against tourism then want work, as if we depended here for our livelihoods on the aerospace industry.
The original article contains 335 words, the summary contains 190 words. Saved 43%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
We are spending our vacations in our adopted country every year and Málaga is by far one of the most tourist-y places in spain, and not a great example of how amazing this country is unless you take the train to the local towns.
Every restaurant/bar etc. staff speak English, Dutch, German, French, there are cruise ships that dock there so its a huge influx of tourists for lunch/dinner times. It felt like a giant strip mall, with very little personality.
Gentrification (?) is happening quickly here in the tourist hot spots and we see a lot of locals being pushed out of town centers because of costs & availability.