Barcelona seems to have begun to take precautionary measures so as not to shoot up the rate of tourists per square meter with the suspension of new hotel licenses. Many consider tourism an inexhaustible source of wealth for cities but sometimes forget the impact and cost of a complex phenomenon in terms of changes in the urban model, in intra-urban mobility derived from the expulsion / abandonment of historic centers and the central spaces of cities, new needs for waste management or investment in infrastructure, among many other aspects that are being altered in an uncontrolled way, as has been the case in some European cities.
Cities that are attractive due to their beauty, their history or their monumentality must know how to manage the massive influx of tourists. Excesses in the use of this mana can end up denaturing them and stripping them of their city title.