The southern city is one of several hotspots on Spain‘s popular coastlines that have long attracted tourists from the UK.
The arrival of the Picasso and Thyssen art museums, the Soho Theatre set up by the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas and the Pompidou Centre made the city a cultural draw to tourists who have flooded the city centre.
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Read MoreThe influx of too many tourists has “reduced the quality of life and the experience of visitors”, the report said.
Malaga’s city council is one of the first authorities to officially recognise the problem of overtourism.
“Tourist pressure causes the expulsion of native and value-added businesses, which are replaced by souvenir shops and other businesses orientated exclusively towards tourists,” the report said.
Traditional businesses and residents are being pushed out of Malaga’s historic old town (Photo: John Keeble/Getty Images)
Low-quality restaurants have also sprung up selling fast or frozen food.
“It seems like they are pushing us out, both the residents and the businesses,” he told The i Paper.
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Read MoreIn November, Malaga’s council banned more tourist flats in a number of areas where there were residents in the same buildings. There are currently 12,000 tourist flats.
“The damage to the city centre because people have had to abandon their homes because of this extreme gentrification is almost irreparable,” he told The i Paper.
Malaga city council has introduced seven tourist routes to redirect the flow of visitors and relieve the pressure on the most saturated areas.
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