If you have visited Barcelona recently, you might have noticed something unusual going on. Since the early summer, central hotspots such as La Rambla and neighbourhoods such as Gracia and Parc Guell ...

Myia McQuilter could barely contain herself as she approached the cruise ship terminal in Barcelona and saw the giant Virgin Voyages ship waiting to take her, her mother and close to 3,000 other ...

Barcelona is pivoting away from mass to quality tourism promotion in the wake of local outrage and pressure. Barcelona’s tourism board is replacing its 15-year-old slogan ‘Visit Barcelona’ with ‘This ...

Visitors are once again jamming the narrow streets of Barcelona's Gothic quarter as global travel bounces back from the COVID-19 pandemic, reviving tensions over mass tourism in the Spanish port city.

Protesters in Barcelona on Saturday squirted tourists with water guns and told them to "go home." The city of Barcelona had 15 million tourists last year.

Rain is falling consistently in Barcelona for the first time in almost four years. Catalonia’s longest drought since records began is coming to an end, bringing the first ‘normal’ spring and ...

Barcelona's tourism industry, by some accounts, may be too successful. Bolstered by heavy interest in the city, it has frustrated locals and driven up costs. As Travel + Leisure reports, the ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona's new mayor is picking a fight with home rental websites as she tries to crack down on uncontrolled tourism that she fears could drive out poor residents and spoil the ...

Cities in Japan, Scotland, and Spain are among the destinations that will become more expensive to visit in 2026 because of ...

Before last year, Martí Cusó didn’t like to linger in the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the neighborhood where he has lived all his life. It was impossible to sit on a bench or play with his ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - The sight of local kids playing under the palm trees in an almost empty Plaça Reial square reminds Gloria Gomez of her childhood in the 1980s before tourism swamped the Barcelona ...

The crush of tourists pouring into central Barcelona has become a real problem, pushing up property prices, pumping up noise levels and pushing out residents. The Spanish city of 1.6 million people ...