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Turismophobia What Is Turismophobia? Turismophobia is a very new noun to enter common usage, it originates in Spanish where it is spelled Turismofobia. It is the name coined by the Spanish media to describe the growing anti-tourist movement particularly prevalent in areas such as Barcelona, where new political groups including the radical left Arran are pursuing an agenda that claims mass tourism has a negative effect on local culture, and in so far as its effect on inflation of living costs for local people, that it is bad for the economy too. Though we are most used to using phobia in the context of ‘fear of’, turismofobia would more readily come under the ‘aversion to’ or possibly even ‘hatred of’ definitions. The earliest mention we know of turismofobia in relation to Ibiza, is when the Balearic Tourism Minister claimed it did not exist at the March 2017 tourist trade fair in Berlin. Turismofobia is normally used to describe an openly antitourist viewpoint,. This is the first time we have seen it used as it is by the Playa d’en Bossa businesses, to describe institutional policies that have the effect of working against the tourism industry, though the policymakers behind them would not agree that it was in any way their intent. Full story in NEWS on page 27 ...