The one who came closer Barruerain the Catalan Pyrenees, during this Immaculate Bridge you will have had difficulty finding a neighbor to ask you for directions. In this small town of Lleida, it is up to twenty times more likely to hear “I’m sorry, … I’m not from here” than to get the information you’re looking for.
The city, located in the Boi Valleyhas 236 registered residents, but offers up to 4,439 accommodation places for visitors, according to the Atlas of municipal tourism contributions in Spain, prepared by Exceltur. So, if at any given time all of its accommodations reached full capacity, 95% of the people staying overnight in the city would come from outside. This is Spain’s most extreme case in the relationship resident touristbut not the only one: others follow 163 municipalities and 34 census sectionsthe smallest geographic division.
behind Barruera is found Thermal baths (La Rioja), with 2,080 places compared to 198 registered; Labuerda (Huesca), with 1,995 against 176; or, also in this province, Torlawith 344 residents for 3,397 tourist beds.
The largest municipality in which this situation occurs is Benidorm (Alicante), where their 77,211 neighbors recorded are exceeded by the 96,950 tourist places. He follows San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Las Palmas), with a population of 54,925 inhabitants compared to an accommodation capacity of more than 90,000 people. In third place appears Calvia (Balearic Islands), of which 54,082 residents live together in high season with nearly 70,000 visitors.
At the opposite extreme, in Guadalajara we find Castilenew -which with only eight inhabitants has 18 places- or Monasterywhere its 13 neighbors can accommodate up to 18 tourists. The Riojan Angon presents a situation of parity: eight neighbors and eight places.
The provinces with the most saturated areas
In two bastions of Spanish tourism —Girona and the Balearic Islands— As the graph shows, the greatest number of localities (both municipalities and census tracts) are concentrated where tourists outnumber residents: 22 and 20 respectively.
In the Catalan province, the most extreme relationship is recorded in friendsinside Baix Empordà (2,583 inhabitants against 19,360 places). A few kilometers away, already in the Alt Empordà, is found Sant Pere Pescadorwith 2,207 registered against 15,218 places. Likewise, among the most populated localities of Girona where this situation occurs is Lloret De Mar (with 41,944 inhabitants according to the last census and 53,023 beds available) and Toroella de Montgríwhere there is almost 22,000 seats difference between residents and tourists.
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Without massaging
In 16 provinces, tourist saturation is useless
On the islands, the municipality where this relationship is most pronounced is Sant Llorenç des Cardassar: with a full room, 74% of the people sleeping there would be visitors. It also highlights Wallwith a ratio of 70%. Among the most populated localities affected are those mentioned above. Calviain addition to Alcudia or holy Joseph de sa Talaia.
For its part, in the province of Huescathird in the ranking, there are 18 localities affected by this tourist overpopulation. The most populous of these is Benasque, where there are twice as many beds available for visitors as there are registered residents. Next come Biescas (2,779 places against 1,615 inhabitants) and Sallent De Gállego (1,1516 against 5,216).
By autonomous community, Catalonia, mainly due to the tourist offer of its coastline and the Pyrenees, has the largest number of populations affected by this event (48), followed by Andalusia with 24.
Saturation in neighborhoods
If census sections are analyzed, Malaga It has four, all located in its historic center, where the capacity to accommodate visitors is greater than that of residents. If all the tourist apartments were filled, they would represent the 52% of the population.
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Saturated cities
In three provincial capitals (Marbella, Seville and Granada), there are neighborhoods with more reception capacity for travelers than for resident residents.
It must be taken into account that at this level of detail, the INE only provides data on places in tourist accommodation, so those in hotels, hostels, pensions, etc. should be added for a complete estimate.
Marbella and Sevillewith three census sections each, are the following cities with the most tourist-saturated areas. In Marbella, on average, 59% of beds correspond to visitors; In the center of the Seville capital, the ratio rises to 53.41%.
The section of the census where the difference is most extreme is 01008 from La Oliva (Valencia)where almost 73% of the capacity of tourist residences is intended for visitors. They follow the 01003 from Dénia (68.34%) and the 01007 from San Javier (Murcia).
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