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Spain's second city has a new mayor - who has controversial plans to cap the number of tourists in her popular home. Is this the (limited) future of travel?

Cluttered: Barcelona's main avenue La Rambla is rarely without a crowd.  Photo: Alamy

They are not words you expect to hear from a politician. Especially not from a politician in so popular a destination. And especially not when they go against the general grain of the 21st century and attack one of the true boom industries of the modern world – tourism.

So the statements made by Ada Colau, the new mayor of Barcelona, in recent days, could well be considered seismic – a frank comment that you can have too many paying guests in one place, that too much interest in a city can be a bad thing. They may also come to be viewed as an inadvisable attempt to kill a golden goose.  More>>>.

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