- The announcement of the demonstration was made on the occasion of the meetings organized by the Southern European Network against Tourism (TEH) in Barcelona. They have been called "against tourist monoculture" and have been joined by about fifteen actors from Southern Europe.
The association with VivaLagunE points out that there is a growing collective awareness of the imposition of limits on tourism, and it is in this context that the Southern Europe Network Against Tourism (TEH) was created in 2018. In order to bring people affected by the "tourist monoculture" to life, three days of meetings have been organized in Barcelona, where it has been reported that there have been days of "mutual listening and discussion".
"Dialogues, workshops and debates about the situation in the territories and the action of the participating collectives". Closing the days and launching coordinated mobilizations between the territories, a symbolic event was held in the temple of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. During this event, the demonstration of June 15 has been reported.
They say they will oppose "tourist monoculture" with a common slogan and coordination between territories, and that the voice of southern Europe against tourism will be heard "throughout the continent and beyond". The aim of the mobilisation is "to put an end to the tourist fire that destroys the planet and to begin once and for all the necessary socio-economic transformation of the territories it exploits". Several groups have joined the mobilizations: From Bilbao, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, San Sebastian, Ibiza, Pamplona, Genoa, Lisbon, Mallorca, Milan, Naples, Palermo, the Pyrenees, Valencia, Venezuela and Barcelona.