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Speaker 1: Tourists arriving in Barcelona, as I was telling you earlier

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Speaker 1: for the America's Cup A receiving a hostile welcome as

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Speaker 1: the city grapples with overcrowding and mass tourism. Locals have

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Speaker 1: been seen wearing anti America's Cup merchandise and they're planning

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Speaker 1: a series of demonstrations about this next week.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Megan Singleton is a travel writer from Blogger at Large

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Speaker 1: and is with us. Now, Hey, Megan, hi, here, this

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Speaker 1: is not this is not just a Barcelona thing. Is

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Speaker 1: that this is across Europe that they're feeling quite a

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Speaker 1: hostile towards tourists.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's and it's weird, isn't it was? Because

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Speaker 2: if you take Barcelona, don't forget that the mayor was

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Speaker 2: just saying how when they won the pitch, how fantastic

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Speaker 2: it was going to be for Barcelona to have all

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Speaker 2: these tourists in this great, big event. And then everyone

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Speaker 2: arrives and go to Faith. You would imagine and hello,

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Speaker 2: they're all being a bit of me. Yeah, It's a

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Speaker 2: bit strange, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: They have a fair point, though, I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: were to completely see it just from their perspective, They've

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Speaker 1: got a point, haven't they, That all these people come

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Speaker 1: in for a lark, drive up the prices and they

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Speaker 1: can't enjoy it themselves.

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Speaker 2: And it's not even just the lark. So I've tried

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Speaker 2: to do a bit of Google research. Well I'm not

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Speaker 2: as good as ants, but what I have discovered is

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Speaker 2: each team has all of its crew and families and

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Speaker 2: they have put multiple apartments for multiple months to live

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Speaker 2: there and get all these you know, just even shipping

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Speaker 2: over of all the boats are putting together, of the boats,

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Speaker 2: all the ancillary teams. I did see that there were

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Speaker 2: three hundred Emirates flights booked just for Team New Zealand

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Speaker 2: to get there, so you know, extrapolated that out to

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Speaker 2: all six teams and that's a lot of crew and

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Speaker 2: families living in apartments in Barcelona. And yes, then you've

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Speaker 2: got the tourists that are coming over to watch it

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Speaker 2: and that are taking all the airbnbs. So that is

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Speaker 2: why the locals are finding their accommodation prices are going

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Speaker 2: sky high that there's no re for them to stay.

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Speaker 1: Is there a thing going on at the moment where

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Speaker 1: we are particularly interested in going to Europe?

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Speaker 2: Well, the thing that was very interesting was that Paris

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Speaker 2: was down on this time last year in tourist numbers,

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Speaker 2: and so they did not get the bank for their

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Speaker 2: bucket they were promised that they would get. And then

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Speaker 2: I also discovered that in the last Summer Olympics, London,

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Speaker 2: Atlanta all saw a decrease in tourism when they hosted

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Speaker 2: the summer Games. So that you fork out all this

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Speaker 2: big money for your city and you hope that it's

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Speaker 2: going to, you know, increase their tourism, and you've got

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Speaker 2: Airbnb's going on special, hotels discounting their rates, and in

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Speaker 2: restaurants trying to do too.

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Speaker 1: What do you put that down to is that just

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Speaker 1: because people look at it and go that's a massive event,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be an absolute cluster. I'm not going exactly.

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Speaker 2: Delta Airlines are saying they took a massive hit. Americans

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Speaker 2: just thought that we're not going to Paris and so

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Speaker 2: they were hugely down on this time last year.

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Speaker 1: You ever been to the Olympic Games.

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Speaker 2: No, but I've had friends who were there this year

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Speaker 2: and they were just filling their Facebook feed with all

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Speaker 2: of their shots they were in the athletics. They were

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Speaker 2: just that every athletics event and it was made watching

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Speaker 2: it vicariously that was my life.

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Speaker 1: And so what did they say? Was it a cluster

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Speaker 1: or was it actually awesome?

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Speaker 2: No, they thought it was awesome. But then they were

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Speaker 2: staying somewhere and they were going to the events, and

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Speaker 2: they were going to every single event, and then they

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Speaker 2: would go out and do stuff in the evening. But

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Speaker 2: I think if you had a little restaurant, not perhaps

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Speaker 2: right around although stayed de France is not in a

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Speaker 2: great area of Paris, and they have seen enormous increase

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Speaker 2: in well building infrastructure, lots more police, lots of people

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Speaker 2: keeping it tidy, and they've loved it and their businesses

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Speaker 2: have really thrived. But that was literally right around the stadium.

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Speaker 2: I think the rest of the places in Paris saw

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Speaker 2: a decrease.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating stuff. Meghan, thank you for talking us through that.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciated. What a great job you've got. Megan Singleton,

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