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4. Wow! New York City had 64 million tourists in 2024.

Mon Jun 16, 2025, 04:16 PM

Jun 16

That's about 175,000 per day, while Barcelona had about 71,000 a day.
Of course NYC is a lot bigger, and has about 5 times the population, so I can see where the residents of Barcelona might feel a bit overwhelmed.

https://emoryeconomicsreview.org/articles/2025/2/4/the-economics-of-tourism-in-barcelona

https://roadgenius.com/statistics/tourism/usa/new-york/

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Protesters against overtourism take to the streets of southern Europe [View all] Eugene Jun 16 OP

Fascinating issue. SleeplessinSoCal Jun 16 #2

Wow! New York City had 64 million tourists in 2024. patphil Jun 16 #4

The vast majority only visit a small subset of NYC IbogaProject Jun 16 #6

Tourists overrun beautiful places and make them ugly. Irish_Dem Jun 16 #5

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