TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice 2013 destinations are out, and Barcelona  is no. 5 of the world’s 25 top destinations.

The Open Data Tourism Hack-at-Home aims to create apps to help cities manage the challenges of tourism. One of the cities you can enter your app solution to is Barcelona! Deadline: 5/6/2013. The new Open Data Tourism Hack at home, part of […]

Certain places in Barcelona suffer from mass tourist. But Barcelona is also more than la Sagrada Familia and Las Ramblas. So, the new plan is to divide tourists amongst more places in the city. One such place is Horta-Guinardó, also known as […]

This morning, CETT Alumni and the Club de Biología y Biotecnología de Alumni UB organised a round table discussion around “virus, and climate change, and how it affects tourism”. Here we learned about One Health, “the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines — working locally, […]

The boom of low-cost lodging, an interesting article in El País about how the number of hostels in Barcelona has doubled in the last few years, and about how for each legal bed there is 1 or 2 illegal ones, according to Carles […]

Last week Petz Scholtus took part in the conference “How to mitigate the impact of mass tourism in Barcelona?” by Upsocial. Juan Manuel Ribera, tourism consultant, explained that “tourism is not one thing but the sum of many things like gastronomy transportation, health care, […]

In 2012 Barcelona received 7,44 million tourists, 0,7% more than the year before according to La Vanguardia “Barcelona mantiene el número de turistas en 2012 pero caen un 6,8% los españoles”  

Martí Guixé asks: How could we get tourists to explore more than the historic centre? Artist TOFA suggest going to the darkest place in the city and play with light! Very cool!! Check out the project via Bettery Magazine. (Thanks Gustavo for […]

This is a bit of an unusual tour of Barcelona. Last week, Petz went to visit a part of the sewer system! It was a very educational and not too smelly tour. That was you really get to know your city! Photos […]

Tourist Walk is Marc Javierre’s photographic documentary of mass tourism in Barcelona. While some photos might seem funny, it shows the sad truth of irresponsible tourism in the city. We hope that showing this phenomenon inspires more people to do something against […]

Kudos to We Hate Tourism Tours in Lisbon for their bold naming and for getting it right! You can also hate them on facebook.  

Today, december 13th 2012, is the day that the one-billionth tourist arrives somewhere in the world! One billion tourists have travelled the world in 2012, marking a new record for international tourism. By buying local, saving energy and transportation, protecting heritage and […]

Let´s face it: most hotels are boring; un-hotels are not! Nice to see more and more of those popping up, like One Fine Stay (a sort of 5 Star Airbnb that is also based on collaborative consumption), the Pixel Hotel and Plus One. […]

Wouldn’t this be nice…  

Here are some tours around Barcelona for the non-tourist. The guide book “Barcelona 20×20” takes you to 20 unique places in the city, chosen and explained by 20 unique people who have a strong relationship with Barcelona. Amongst others, Ferran Adrià takes […]