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Many in Málaga fear that their city is becoming a theme park for tourists. Activists say the post-pandemic tourism boom has pushed locals to the limit by distorting the rental market and gentrifying the city centre. Marching under the slogan ‘Málaga for living, not surviving’, last weekend 15,000 people took to the streets to demand affordable housing and protest mass-tourism in the Costa del Sol city. Bernardo, 39, tells Euronews Travel that he went “to support people who are trying to live with dignity in Málaga”. For many, he says, the “situation is getting worse month by month due to the c...
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The Spanish National Police have dismantled a major criminal organisation in Malaga that has forced hundreds of women into prostitution, authorities said Wednesday. Law enforcement arrested 25 people and freed at least 11 victims in the operation. About €150,000 in cash and around 1.2 kg of cocaine were also confiscated. Most of the victims were Colombian and lured to the Costa del Sol with promises of work in beauty salons. Once there, gang members forced the victims into prostitution in four brothels in the city, according to National Police investigators. The exploited women — said to be mo...
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For the first time, Malaga is putting the brakes on the proliferation of tourist accommodation, with the city council now limiting new licences to properties with a separate entrance. Malaga thus joins other cities and territories that have promoted similar or more restrictive measures, such as Balearic Islands, San Sebastian, Barcelona, Gijón, Madrid, Seville and Valencia, where a one-year moratorium on new tourist housing licences came into effect on 30 May. According to the Andalusian Regional Government Register, Malaga has 12,124 dwellings licensed for tourist use. In the whole of Spain t...
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Construction and climate change are eating away at one stretch of the Spanish coast at an alarming rate. Between 2016 and 2022, the Arraijanal-San Julián coast between Torremolinos and Málaga receded up to 45 metres. The Spanish government has said for decades that the country’s coastline suffers from the “generalised process of coastal regression”. But the extent of the problem on this part of the Costa del Sol puts the situation into focus. So much so that the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea has declared it “a situation of serious regression”. For this to happen the beach must h...
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