The mayoress of Barcelona and BComú candidate, Ada Colau, for the next municipal elections has proposed a new “shock plan” on Monday to regulate tourism. Among the measures, Colau has called for an agreement to be reached in Parliament to change the law so that city councils can revoke licenses for tourist apartments after the authorization of 120 apartments for these uses in a block of flats in Tarragona street, in the Eixample district.
“It cannot be that the majority are in the hands of large operators and have a perpetual license,” Colau assured in an act at the Mayor’s viewpoint of Montjuïc, who has also defended doing the same with the licenses of souvenir shops.
Other “minimum” measures that it has launched refer to the non-expansion of the airport and the limitation of cruise passengers, up to a maximum of 200,000 per month. “The rate of growth is unaffordable. Now it is possible to produce more than 400,000 cruise passengers a monthâ€, he stated. The BComú candidate has appealed to the leftist forces to “avoid mass tourism that generates disorder and serious problems in the neighborhoods.”
As for tourist apartments, Junts has once again asked the municipal government for explanations and has requested that it reveal how many licenses of this type may end up being granted in Barcelona “because of its mismanagement”.
