Barcelona residents find new ways to fend off tourists
by editors@theworld.org (Gerry Hadden) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6Y6Y2)
Some residents in a downtown Barcelona building are hoping to shut down illegal Airbnb flats in their building - not by denouncing the apartment owners, but by scaring off the renters with big orange signs warning them of steep fines for staying the night. Other Barcelona residents are protesting with loaded water pistols, hoping to send a clear message to tourists: "We don't want you here." The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.