In Lisbon, Portugal they have ceased new airbnb permits. I am glad.

@filipepedro8272

Ай бұрын

Lisbon is the most expensive city in Europe for rentals

@santo3720

Ай бұрын

​@@filipepedro8272naaa. London still beats Lisbon

@nikosfarma5643

Ай бұрын

And half Portuguese population work as waiters and maids in France. Very smart move.

@nikosfarma5643

Ай бұрын

That explains partially why Portugal is a poor country and sells on industrial scale citizenships to rich asians.

@fixouweb

Ай бұрын

@@nikosfarma5643ignorant

The problem is not tourist. The problem is those corporations who buy anything and everything. They need to go after those corporations.

@koushikdas1992

25 күн бұрын

If we go against the tourists, then corporation will have lost interest in this regard.

@JACK_TheAllSeeingEye

20 күн бұрын

The don't sell! Blame the corporations when you agree to selk? Muppets....

Airbnb destroys neighborhoods.

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

They need to be stopped!

@gogo-vj4qw

Ай бұрын

​@laurentlaughlin how if you have enough houses you will do that also. But you are poor 😂😂😂

@jfrancobelge

Ай бұрын

More and more touristic places in France are putting restrictions on Airbnb and likes.

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

@@gogo-vj4qw Just impose regulations, look at what New York did. And your patronizing tone should spend more time reading than looking for emoticons on your phone.

@nikosfarma5643

Ай бұрын

It brings hard money to a money strapeed country with a soviet bureaucracy and heavily in debd.

Happened to Amsterdam years ago. Everywhere nice gets ruined by mass tourism and foreign investors.

@Josmar01

Ай бұрын

It's also happening in Mexico city

@margaridavelhinho1618

Ай бұрын

You are right: foreign investors who ruin our countries.

@TheSterg98

29 күн бұрын

Globalization...

@vius0013

25 күн бұрын

I visited Amsterdam recently after 10 years and was speechless by the amount of people. We could barely walk, you could just follow the crowd watching the window girls like some kind of zoo. Very sad

@Harriett2423

5 күн бұрын

@@vius0013 Amsterdam is disneyland now, it doesn't feel like a functioning city - just hoards of people as far as the eyes can see, they need to put some proper tourism quotas in place.

Why is it that every touristically attractive city turns into a dead zone for local communities? It doesn't have to be this way...

@kurolotus4851

Ай бұрын

Tourists are in tourist spots for sort term, so they are willing to pay extra thus outcompeting locals.

@swagatopablo

Ай бұрын

Yes, it has to be. Most people in local communities are often mediocre and not very competent, or competitive enough. They were just born there, didn't achieve anything much. Tourists are often richer, smarter (obviously with dispensable income to travel). Those locals who own property can make money using property or land as capital assets, and ride the tourism boom. But those locals who do not, simply are unfit to live in a desirable place. So them moving out is a good thing.

@user-kh8mv2be8t

Ай бұрын

It is not only tourism or tourist spots. Many places with effectively zero tourism have the exact same problem. The population of the world has just doubled over the past generation, but the number of cities has not--existing cities have gotten larger instead, but people still want to live in the city center regardless of whether the population is 500k or 5 million. AirBnB is a convenient scapegoat for politicians, but isn't going to solve the problem, the effect size is too small. Already without regulation many are converting AirBnBs in many cities back to regular rentals because too many people entered the short term market during the pandemic when prices spiked and the demand just isn't high enough to sustain everyone now.

@reececollison5101

Ай бұрын

Take it from me who has an Athenian partner. The situation there is nothing like it’s been made out in this video. The developers are coming in and tarting the buildings up because no Greeks have any money and the buildings were sitting there dormant and empty, no one else wants them. Blame the cataclysmic Greek economic environment, not the developers

@CandycaneBeyond

Ай бұрын

You are ignorant to the quality of life people deserve​@@swagatopablo

“Some Greeks are starting to feel like foreigners in their own country” sounds like London for the last 15 years.

@peter320vn

Ай бұрын

15 years is nothing compare to countries that England colonize. 😉

@mr.g3940

Ай бұрын

Karma? You stole all their gold, killed then and enslaved then, now you complain they are coming to your home ...

@thatoneguywholovesthena-4529

Ай бұрын

I'm leaving this comment because i wanna see where this reply thread goes😮

@mradventurer8104

Ай бұрын

​@@mr.g3940 He did this? He must be 250 or 350 years old now then if he did that many centuries ago ;) Then what crimes did you do 300 years ago?

@DaniG.German883

Ай бұрын

You’re not allowed to say that

sadly to admit, my homeland Cyprus is faced with the same issue...even my childhood village of Paralimni where i spent careless days...is starting to fade...i'm writing this comment as my pledge to save what i can < 3

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

Let's fight this!

@nikosfarma5643

Ай бұрын

Then your country will have to launder more money from Russian oligarchs. Your call.

@mg8061

Ай бұрын

​@@laurentlaughlin I really appreciate you for taking the time to comment with your support..I wholeheartedly feel we are many, who have dwelled in this thought and subsequent feeling. Let's try to create a 'group chat' where we can discuss & connect, create a bond through people with this common feeling. We can then direct our focus, methodically where and how it needs to be done in order to have an impact sooner than later..

@amarsinghhembram4379

Ай бұрын

"careless days"

@mg8061

Ай бұрын

@@amarsinghhembram4379 the best

I live on the Big Island of Hawaii and this is an issue for us here too. So many short term rentals are not only taking housing away from locals but are driving prices up to the point that locals can't afford to live here anymore. Some of the blame must fall on greedy local owners as well who care more about making quick profits than how their actions affect others in the community.

@nikosfarma5643

Ай бұрын

But nobody objected when Japanese were buying everything back in the 80's.

@MeiinUK

Ай бұрын

@@nikosfarma5643 : Dailymail wrote about this a long while back.. did you know that you now have roads, and actual McDonalds, in front of the Egyptian pyamids? LOL...... This is a joke.... An extremely stupid and tough joke... Cos why ? Nobody is disputing this at the UN level ? We used to have a "heritage" foundation at the UN level. But what happens ? When you hire UN candidates that is NOT From that country, and are mere academics, do you think that the UN is working any more? No !!! They don't even care ! Corruption happens at that level... and it is not to restore.. or to even actually..... they aren't even the people, or the race, that they are defending, cos those races of people have died, or gone extinct !!!!!! And yet, nobody is arguing about that fact any more either !!!!! And neither it is THEIR descendents that are doing the defending EITHER !!!!!!!! The whole bloomin thing is a JOKE.

Why is Athens even so popular? 99% of the buildings are modern apartment blocks. It has only Akropolis and that's it. The rest of the city is literally just an ugly concrete jungle.

@AALavdas

Ай бұрын

Well, not 99%, but a ridiculously high proportion, I agree. Central Athens was absolutely wonderful before WWII, and yet 80% of pre-war buildings were lost in the post-war building boom. But it certainly does not have only the Acopolis!

@DunhillX1

Ай бұрын

Nope. It's quite a magical, phenomenal city that offers, sun, sea, mountains, ancient wonders, delicious cuisine and historical culture. That's pretty awesome I'd say.

@mgoncalves5596

Ай бұрын

Athens is one of the best European capitals with modern buildings or not

@ART-kp9cn

Ай бұрын

I think Greece is an amazing country with lots to offer, but Athens was okay. I personally liked Thessaloniki way better.

@Romalvx

Ай бұрын

You shouldn’t write like this about a community worth the world’s history, philosophy, language, scientific and social studies. Please respect.

As a Greek i understand that tourism is a valuable industry for the country, but it should NEVER come at the cost of the locals. Its the locals after all that live and make the city what it is and they are also the ones supposed to be served by their city. And tbh i would prefer a hotel than an airbnb anyways.

There is a very simple way to stop this 1) property may only be purchased by citizens 2) rentals below 30 days are banned i.e air bnb It's really that simple, the first one is the easiest to implement

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

Exactly!

@absyahwa7698

Ай бұрын

But greeks will fall into crisis again😂

@chriszavos

Ай бұрын

@@absyahwa7698 you're right, tourism is the only source of income this country has. It's either tourism or poverty.

@elef951

Ай бұрын

@@absyahwa7698Greece is already bankrupt and in crisis. Tourism isnt the solution for Greece but the exploitation of Greece natural gas in the aegean see.

@tomaccino

Ай бұрын

Your 2nd point pretty much outlaws hotel business and tourism itself. You don't have to go this radical.

The same here in Portugal. Houses for digital nomadas and for rich expats but none for the portuguese peolpe. Shame on neoliberalism.

Money wins nothing new.

Same thing in spain It is not the tourist fault.

@Ahuntsicspotter

Ай бұрын

Where in Spain 🇪🇸?

@gerardorocha247

Ай бұрын

@@AhuntsicspotterBarcelona.

@Ahuntsicspotter

Ай бұрын

@@gerardorocha247 I been there to.

@anonymousfella372

Ай бұрын

It's the tourists' fault. You fool. People should stay in their countries. I promise you, there's nothing of value in travel. People just want to brag about how they had diner in paris, did shopping in Italy, hiked in a different country. I promise you, you're lying to yourself if you think you "learn a place's culture" by visiting a place for days, week, or months.

@newyork8415

Ай бұрын

Yes. The tourists should stay away.

Same in the center of Paris, it has turned into a Disneyland for tourists !!!

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

total nightmare!

@exelmans8855

Ай бұрын

Always have been.

Unfortunately this happened also in Rome, actually during Fascism: many poor local families who used to live in the centre were ousted from areas such as Piazza del Popolo, via del Corso and so on, they were assigned suburban houses especially in Garbatella and Tor Marancia. Enormous is the loss due to gentrification. because no longer the humans who had built their place are there to live it.

@AOTP_TV

Ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@winderwonder

19 күн бұрын

This is also fascism.

@Romalvx

19 күн бұрын

@@winderwonder I agree

NYC banned completely AirBnB and this has made absolutely no difference whatsoever; rents are higher than ever even as the population is actually decreasing as more and more people are leaving the city.

@Ikaros23

Ай бұрын

The fool’s in the comments don’t understand economics. The only way to get rentals down is to build more affordable property and transportation. More regulation will only push rental prizes higher 😂📈.

@arggggg6040

20 күн бұрын

@@Ikaros23facts

the same has happened in Amsterdam, or Barcelona - where finding apartment in fair price it's impossible; and people have to move out of the city, and airBnB is taking more and more space. I live in Greece, and what I have seen in Athens, it is plenty or AirBnb, and rents are going high and high - people rather rent it 4 months in year at Airbnb than rent it normally. Cause 4 months will bring them more money than full year renting contract from regular rent. Islands are the same - every apartment you rent there is private - and more airbnbs are coming up - it used to be like many people, young people were travelling to the island for summer work, now - there is no place to accomodate them, and with more tourists coming, even when there is plenty of jobs, there is no people to hire cause there is no place to accomodate them - and this is how the circles are folllowe. Prices are made to the foreign salary, when our salaries are rising VERY slow...

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

Well spoken!

@FranciscoCorreia10

Ай бұрын

Agree, but apartments in Barcelona are cheap. Now Lisbon is by far way more expensive than Amsterdam or Barcelona

Housing is no longer to live in, it is an investment asset. As most of us do need to live somewhere it gets abit weird to see many emprty places bought just for speculation or nor soild/rented out ata lower price to keep the asset value up (avrage EUR per month in rent etc)....

Tourist destroy things.

My dad was born and raised in Metaxourgio in the 1920s. Most recently before the “AirBnB era”, it was an extension of the Red Light District, miserable and dilapidated beyond description. No nostalgia.

@WalayatFamily

Ай бұрын

where your mom worked?

This quandary occurs everywhere around the world as locations rise and fall in favor. For example, West Palm Beach used to be the inexpensive area where the servants of Palm Beach millionaires used to live.

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

This is an entire city and the capital of Greece.

@DR_1_1

Ай бұрын

@@laurentlaughlin It's the same in all big cities... too many people, world's population is rising as fast as ever, while the surface of the Earth is not!

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

@@DR_1_1 Yes but mass tourism needs to be reigned in, regulation is needed to deal with this new reality.

@freedombro6502

Ай бұрын

Population is going down, expect for a few groups who are making babies like bunnies 🐰 ​@DR_1_1

@g-man4744

Ай бұрын

​@@DR_1_1population is stagnating and even in decline in most developed countries.

Greece recently announced revisions to its Golden Visa Program, raising the minimum property investment to €800,000 and a threshold of nothing smaller than 120m2 (1,291 sf) effective August 30, 2024 if investing in central Athens, it's southern, and northern suburbs, Thessaloniki, Mykonos and/or Santorini; and will potentially include Crete, the Cyclades, and the Dodecanese islands in future. Also introduced in the new legislation are restrictions on short-term rentals for properties obtained through the Golden Visa Program (can't AirBNB them!) This "might" help, but does not apply to EU citizens, or if an investor simply wants to invest and is not seeking residency. Sadly this is going on all over the world as investors see profits from rental housing to those who have been squeezed out of the property market with rising interest rates.

to be fair. athens was falling apart and people were running off to other european countries. foreigners came as tourists and investors and greek became attractive again. it s not foreigners or tourists that are the problem. it s policies that don t benefit the local population.

@seansean2929

Ай бұрын

Ok. Let´s see what the problem is if someone pays quarter of a million for your property and then leaves it´s abandoned for the sake of "speculation". You effin´clown.

@pwp8737

Ай бұрын

how can policies that benefit the local population be crafted when the political elites are slaves to Berlin and Brussels diktats? Even supposing that a political class that concerns itself with the needs of Greeks ever comes to power (the brief Athens Spring of early 2015 notwithstanding) European capital would crush it.

@DR_1_1

Ай бұрын

Overpopulation. More people, more tourists! Go to Japan where the population is dropping, you can get houses for almost nothing - although maybe not in the capital... It's the power that be who want more people, more migrants, more tourism, they want to make more money than they already have, and they own large properties so they don't care if you can't find a place to live or if housing prices are too high.

@ggsay1687

Ай бұрын

Allowing rich people to buy houses in exchange for EU country passports, what could go wrong when you selling limited amount of goods.

@emilydavison2053

Ай бұрын

@daquidi that's not true. Greece has been popular with tourists for centuries. It has fascinating history, culture and great natural beauty. It's just too much now, and no controls. Amsterdam, Venice, Barcelona, Prague are also being ruined. If locals can't afford to live there an area loses its character.

I don't think is about tourism, but greedy landlords who rather keep neighborhoods for Airbnbs than for local families.

A problem every where that makes is profitable to own a home Homes should be for living in not investing opportunities. They should be able to fix the crisis with taxation .

@DR_1_1

Ай бұрын

The rental flat just in front of mine is on Rbnb! It's in a housing....

@telescopicS627

Ай бұрын

They should build more houses, dump building codes and landuse restrictions. Boomers had their run. They ran it in to the ground. Boomers aus.

Tourism have almost wiped out Venice too. It's a plague.

Politicians allow that. They are guilty.

I live in an island in Greece and August is unbearable. I have no problem with tourists, but 10 times the population in 10 days in summer is toixc. Not liveable.

@Kleftis

12 күн бұрын

We need to put limits on it. It is destroying our islands, culture, tradition.

@igeorgoudi

11 күн бұрын

@@Kleftis and limits on structures and villas. We will have desetred islands for only the richies

It’s ironic, I was in Greece during the 08 financial crisis and these same people were more than grateful for what few tourists there were. They must’ve forgotten those times

The problem in Athens is not Airbnb. The problem is the extremely low wages (a little bit more than 1k net monthly average) that are being paid out by big companies. All major companies in Greece report double net profits each and every year, yet they pay their employees peanuts. Those employees (and mainly Greek women) have zero negotiation skills and would rather live with mom and dad than dare to ask for better salaries and working conditions. Sad but true!

@nadinos

Ай бұрын

No the problem IS Airbnb.. The wages have more or less been as they are for the past 20 years. The difference now is that there is a much smaller supply of vancancies. Basic demand and supply GCSE Economics: Supply goes down, Demand stays up, the new equilibrium price goes up.

@napoleonbonaparte4396

Ай бұрын

That a different issue. But the fact is that US Dollars are game changer in economy.

Same happened to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Malaga, Valencia, etc.

@susanaescriba977

Ай бұрын

Venice, Rome, Florence, Berlin, Budapest etc... all cities in all countries suffer the same

@roedw

Ай бұрын

Istanbul and Bodrum (extreme case of Turkey) too.

@arggggg6040

20 күн бұрын

@@susanaescriba977Berlin is cheap

@susanaescriba977

19 күн бұрын

@@arggggg6040 Tell it to a German.

If I can afford €800 a month and the landlord chooses the person who can afford €1400 a month, then the problem is capitalism and not tourism. The ticking time bomb of combining socialist salaries and salary net income with capitalist, free market real estate started before Airbnb was even thought of.

@cezar211091

Ай бұрын

Of course capitalism is the problem.

@lg206

Ай бұрын

@@cezar211091I think the income is the problem. I’m sure Greeks don’t mind 1400 euro rent if good jobs paid 3400 euro netto. But 1400 when even an accountant or engineer makes 1800 netto…

@dibble2005

Ай бұрын

Like Ireland typical neoliberalism allowing the market to seize control of everything. Commodification and gentrification. Neoliberal policies are destroying Europe.

@AOTP_TV

Ай бұрын

@@cezar211091 Saying capitalism is the problem is a bit of a simplistic blanket statement, the lack of regulation and allowing short term rentals to spiral out of control just to flood athens with short term rentals is inconsiderate to the residents of Athens who can not compete with these prices, the state should look after its citizens no?

@gizemlikisi6213

Ай бұрын

@@lg206 greek salaries are low compared to the west but prices are same in the west for grocieries bills etc right?

Don’t blame the tourists. Blame the greedy investors. They are the ones ruining everything. I feel bad for all these people.

This is happening in Portugal as well, mad reality we're living in.

Let's not pretend that these neighborhoods were some vivid, beautiful, happy communities before. Local communities had long vanished before Airbnb even begin as a concept. Economic immigration, prostitution and drug trafficking prevailed in these neighborhoods. Obviously Airbnb is not the answer, but the problem is not the tourists or the golden visa applicants.

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

Better than having the city turn into another museum city like prague or paris...

@typenull3367

Ай бұрын

@@laurentlaughlinbetter turn in a museum now than before, believe me. For more than 30 years Athens centre was like Islamabad

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

@@typenull3367I live in athens and have been here for 10 years and have been coming for 20, I know what it was like, I’m not arguing for a return to poverty just for regulation to tip the balance the other way so locals don’t get pushed out, seems like a pretty measured response to this housing crisis in my mind. Also I’ve been to Islamabad and it’s a pretty modern city, mainly embassies and consulates, just fyi.

@AALavdas

Ай бұрын

@@laurentlaughlin No

@AALavdas

Ай бұрын

Exactly. I would honestly not go to Metaxourgio after dark, some years ago

Same same here in Barcelona

That lady is rolling some mean keftedes.respect.

I saw something similar in lower Manhattan. Gentrification drove the lower incomes out.

5 generations of my family lived in Miami. It became to expensive for me and I left. I was sad to go but that's life.

The Great -Property - Reset

Get the Spartans to fight the Tourist

@willylao5430

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@jubernardi23

Ай бұрын

The have to fights the right minds behind this, not the tourism, most of the don’t even know there is a problem

@pavlos8844

14 күн бұрын

😂

Portugal is the same history. Houses are no longer homes they are some kind of commodity to trade and speculate with. You visit Lisbon to watch other tourists and some pakistani cheap gift shops and default green cafes. And the locals have to shallow a 900 minimum rent for 2 rooms.

Same thing happened in Winter Haven, Florida. When Legoland was built here the rent for a two bedroom two bathroom apartment was around $700. Now it's $3100. Homes around have turned into Airbnbs.

I sympathise. This tourist will continue to visit Greece, staying in its lovely hotels.

I live in NYC. NYC is full of out of towners, and native New Yorkers have been pushed out financially. The city is bland now and completely lost its character. 😢

@oliver5976

Ай бұрын

I heard an interview with a couple who’s property costed them $17k/month. What jobs pay that much in NY?

@ColtraneTaylor

20 күн бұрын

"The place was very boring, full of out of towners touring." That didn't keep Sister Sledge, Chic and all the other bands from creating their culture did it? Your excuse is what? Maybe you're bland too?

It sounds like Sparks/Reno in Nevada in The U.S.. 😢

@DR_1_1

Ай бұрын

Everywhere the same... remote getaway islands are packed, more 4x4 than lions in African safaris, same in the best diving spots, at the top of the mount Everest they are waiting in line for hours, etc. Can you spell overpopulation?

@felixthecat2786

Ай бұрын

If you think rent is high there go look up rents in Boston. Prices are becoming unaffordable for everyone all over the US and the world.

When outsiders don't want to see the locals and their way of living but admire the historical monuments and just roam around, it means they are out to grab your land and country. Be cautious.

Same thing happened in Hawaii so many investment properties and short term rentals. short term rentals like air bnb need caps.

Also happened in Barcelona, now it's way more regulated. It seems that investors are doing rotations and moving from country to country. It's a plague

Start implementing price controls on all real estate and nationalize private industry

Barcelona says hi.

It been happening on Vancouver too, but not by tourism but dur excesive study permit and "rich visas" for foreigners investors to develop real state business for other rich foreigners that pushed the prices unreachable for local families.

@HEMI345S

Ай бұрын

It's called Chinese invasion 😂😂😂

I'm doing my part by staying away from Greece.

Greece was collapsing financially…

It's happening here in Australia. A lot of people with high payed jobs can't afford to rent. There is a shortage of accommodation and of course the landlords can ask for any price and they will get it. One can expect to pay $600 per week for an average home. Lot's of people sleeping in their cars or in tents.

Im moving to Greece now in July to work but i fell bad for the Greeks who has to go trough this and forced to move out because of mass tourism glad we don’t have this problem here in Brazil.

@happychappie699

17 күн бұрын

So I can safely assume you don't give a toss about taking a job away from a local, right?

@kennedykepler3471

17 күн бұрын

Sorry to disappoint you bot but im not taking away any job from the locals so i don’t care.

Gentrification has already destroyed many big cities in the U.S. The average rent for a one bedroom apartment in New York City is over 3500 dollars.

@shauncameron8390

Ай бұрын

But New York City has a high average salary.

Greece relies too much on tourism for its own good. A certain amount of tourism is a good thing, extreme over-tourism like in Greece's case is devastating, and it's distracting from developing other parts of the economy.

It’s happening in Warsaw, too.

This is not a tourism problem but a short term rentals problem, it’s also easy to fix: crack down on short term renting in tourist hotspots with sky high taxes and incentivize hotels. A few hotels can accommodate as many tourists as hundreds of AirBnbs.

This what is happening in Mexico City😊

@shauncameron8390

Ай бұрын

Due to all the Canadian and US pensioners moving in.

@alain9684

Ай бұрын

@@shauncameron8390 Not only the pensioners, lots of young digital nomads are flooding over here and pushing locals outside the city

@HEMI345S

Ай бұрын

​@@alain9684Let's make Mexico City great again 😂😂😂

They all coming to Australia we have the largest population of Greeks outside Greece Yassou re

@edgregory1

Ай бұрын

The first wave was in the 1950's when Nasser kicked them out of Egypt.

@666hyperionhellas6

Ай бұрын

USA have the largest population of Greeks outside of Greece.

@ColtraneTaylor

20 күн бұрын

@@edgregory1 Greeks were in Egypt then? Why?

@aalliaandreadis5109

14 күн бұрын

It's called Alexandria, for a reason. Google is your friend.​@@ColtraneTaylor

@ColtraneTaylor

14 күн бұрын

@@aalliaandreadis5109 er ... this was the 50s we were specifically talking about.

In dubai local communities and tourist destinations are separated no such issues

@jubernardi23

Ай бұрын

They can’t build a another Dubai in Greece, people go to Greece to ee one of the oldest and beautiful civilization that already exist, they don’t go because of luxury and materialism

@jbennison5672

Ай бұрын

Ridiculous comparison. Also, bell ends go to Dubai.

I been to Athens Greece 🇬🇷 twice and liked it.

Airbnb has negative impacts for all places popular with tourists ,it seems ,except for those who profit from them and tourism in general.

The building they renovated us very nice!

Unregulated short term rentals can lead to unwelcome changes. NYC almost completely banned them, which may be overkill, but some control is needed.

This is why when I travel I prefer to stay in a hotel. I have never stayed in an Air BnB. I also live in a high touristy area in the US and it's the same story. My city is losing its soul and culture.

I pointed out something to whoever reads this comment For as far back as I can remember and I think that’s the 1960s Greece, especially as well as Italy, has promoted their country as of tourist destination In many ways, it’s what they had to offer to trade in the way of services because it does not have a lot of natural resources, and it does not have a lot of manufacturing In a little bit of Greek history attempted to take over parts of Anatolia after they were semi defeated by the Turkish government. There was a conference, and all the Christian Greeks were relocated to Greece, the nation, and a lot of the Muslim Turkish people relocated to Turkey. I think they were about 1 million people that were in the 1920s and permanently stressed out Greece they could not absorb them effectively Quite a few Greeks have chosen to go overseas to live and work and send money home Especially in the 1960s with the easy jet travel and a lot of other southern Mediterranean countries heavily and I mean heavily solicited North America specifically Americans to come over and visit and Britain’s and Germans and other people within the European Union that didn’t quite exist then Well, they’ve been successful beyond their wildest dreams And after about 50 to 60 years people are coming and loving their country to death They could’ve thought about ways, mitigating the impact of tourist coming there, but that would’ve been a tall order for the simple reason you would have to admonish people from going, and doing certain things early on, and you might lose prestige as being a friendly place to go If you want to see the same in the look at Iceland, they’re beginning to feel stressed out from tourists

@intersezioni

Ай бұрын

I inform you that Italy is the second industrial and manufacturing power in Europe after Germany. Tourism covers a small part of the economy unlike Greece or Spain!

Whoa!

This is happening in Cape Town too was just there…nuts

OK, I won't go to Athens anytime soon...

They are literally suffering from success

Sad to see over tourism in many places all over this worn out earth. Time places were CLOSED to visitors to let them rest and recuperate.

In nyc the law was changed which put extreme limits on short term leasing..as of now housing costs are still sky high..would no regulation made it worse? Perhaps, but the problem of the cost of living especially shelter..goes way deeper than just one thing..my opinion.

We can limit the "air BNB" temporary hotels allowed in Greece. #Greece #Unitedairlines #Airbnb #Wellfargo #Iran #realestate

this happens everywhere. a bohemian centre arises all the wannabes become aware and want in. they get in and their mere presence destroys the vibe and now its about them not the community. everywhere.

Locals should be incentives to make more bed and breakfast like spaces. Corpos or foreign investors should only get the problematic old/ruined buildings.

Similar here in the Philippines with the Chinese tourists.

@Koala-jj7go

Ай бұрын

The reason is because since another if not most manufacturing has shifted to China I think the only ideas government's have is foreign tourists or visa schemes to make money.

I dont understand how people chosee greece i would 100 time rather go to South Albania the beaches offer same service with 1/5 the price.

@asprigata8372

Ай бұрын

Ρε ουστ και τι έχετε να δείξετε εσείς δεν είναι μόνο η θάλασσα οξωωωωωω

@billba

Ай бұрын

Σκουπιδιταρ

@asprigata8372

19 күн бұрын

Αλβανός ζήλια

Its honestly ruining every country. Be it air bnb or rich foreign investment buying up the properties. Homes should be homes. Not retirement investments!

@arggggg6040

20 күн бұрын

😂😂 houses that only was to sell isnt Effect the renting market

Who moving to Greece ?

This is most assuredly *not* happening in America's Rust Belt. Everyone is welcome to come. Hop on a barge in Pittsburgh all the way to Cairo, Illinois and come and see all the abandoned factories. No castles I'm afraid. Rolling, rolling rolling on a river.

Sad😥

Tourism is good for paying off the state debt though ;) But yes sad for the locals although it does give them jobs, which is important because their economy depends for a large percentage on tourism.

It’s an ugly cement city and an oven in summer.

@natnat8393

Ай бұрын

I know right

@pialfre

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@pwp8737

Ай бұрын

You need to know where to find beauty that is hidden in Athens.

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

Great, don't come!

@ColtraneTaylor

20 күн бұрын

@@laurentlaughlin Come? You're quite the local aren't you?

Even in Capitalism we have to separate the commercial, public space from the private space. Airbnb should be outlawed. If tourists need lodging build bloody hotels, lot's of them. The same phenomenon is happening in Lisboa. The value of the local real estate increases astronomically, which is only good for the owners of said real estate, the local residents are forced out. The people who gave character and life to the city are told they are no longer required. Starbucks, Macdonalds, Burger King, dozens of faux Portuguese cuisine restaurants, manned by foreigners, spring up to cater to gullible tourists. The global villlage has arrived. Why even have tourists, if everywhere is the same, they might as well stay home, and save a trip.

@laurentlaughlin

Ай бұрын

Exactly!

@pavlos8844

14 күн бұрын

I've been to Lisbon and it was fantastic. There were tourists but nothing overwhelming. Athens is way way worse.

100% same in İstanbul

What a complete joke of a deputy finance minister….market for whom? Sacrificing the locals for not disrupting the market, what a genius idea…..

unfortunately, everywhere, short term rentals give you CONTROL over your hard earned, long term asset. Regular rents do not, almost everywhere.

What changed in such a short time for these places, why has this been something of the last 5 years ? Someone here said Mexico City and honestly I went there in 2019 and didn’t see many tourists at all.

Interesting comments from all nationalities talking about being in the same situation. We are transforming our homes into Theme Parks.

You're talking to corrupted politicians

This is what unfettered greed does to society.

Im staying at the Ramada outside Athens next month. But it ain't cheap

Same as Mexico.

I'm screaming this for years: AirBNB should be taxed to hell!

I think people need to be careful what they wish. AIRBNB, and these so called travel nomads, short rentals, has ruined the quality of life in towns, and cities. I blame people for not researching the agenda behind these services, which is why when I travel I stay in a hotel (not an AIRBNB) I take a taxi cab, not a UBER. There is a reason why people want these services out of their city.

If the neighborhoods would just put a limit on how many rentals can exist problem solved. Plus stop letting foreigners buy property

@dannylengyel5830

Ай бұрын

They cannot afford to do that. Why would a broke country intentionally limit foreign investment?