SHOTLIST: BARCELONA, SPAIN (JUNE 15, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTORS CARRYING WATER GUNS, BANNERS 2. PROTESTORS ATTACHING SECURITY TAPE ON WINDOWS, WALLS 3. STICKERS ON WINDOWS 4. SECURITY TAPE ON WINDOWS, WALLS 5.VARIOUS OF PROTESTORS CARRYING BANNERS, WATER GUNS, MARCHING / SECURITY MEASURESBARCELONA, SPAIN - JUNE 15, 2025: Spaniards took to the streets in Barcelona, San Sebastian, and Granada on Sunday (June 15) to protest the current tourism model, which they say causes rising living costs, declining quality of life, and environmental problems. Protests against mass tourism, which have been on the rise in Spain in recent years, continued this weekend. In Barcelona, one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations, protesters gathered in the city center chanting slogans such as "Bread, future, a roof over our heads," "Tourism steals from us," and "One more tourist, one less neighbor." In the demonstration, which was also supported by some small left-wing political parties in Catalonia, there was also a reaction against the expansion project of El Prat Airport in Barcelona, ​​for which the government had given financial approval. Police prevented the protesters from marching towards the Sagrada Familia Basilica, one of Barcelona's major tourist attractions. In the Basque city of San Sebastian, demonstrators marched following a call by 48 associations and organizations, chanting, "We don’t want uncontrolled tourism." Representatives of participating NGOs, who argue that tourism leads to economic inequality, housing problems, and lower living standards in cities", said "We have been dealing with this problem for years.That's why we demand that appropriate measures be implemented as soon as possible to reduce tourism and transition to a model that focuses on the city's residents, not the tourism sector." In Granada, home to Spain’s most visited tourist site, the Alhambra Palace, protesters made similar demands and said, "We are not against the tourism sector, but we are against the model that pushes neighborhood residents out, makes daily life difficult, and the administration that encourages opportunistic funds to buy neighborhoods, increase prices and make them uninhabitable," Spain, which welcomed 93.8 million tourists last year, expects close to 100 million visitors this year. Anti-tourism demonstrations that began in the Canary Islands two years ago in Spain, where British, French and German tourists predominate, were spread to other regions such as the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Madrid and the Basque Country.