Questão 57 - CEFSA Conhecimentos Gerais 2025/1

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    Incensed after finding out his rental home of 10 years was about to become a tourist apartment, Daniel Romero took to social media. What followed quickly became a movement, as residents in Málaga, Spain, began plastering stickers — reading “A family used to live here” (“AnTes una familia vivia aquí”) or “Go home” (“Anda Tu casa”) — outside tourist lets¹ across the southern Spanish city.

    “I didn’t mean to arm a revolution,” said Romero. “I’m just looking for a house to live in.”

    At the core of what one Spanish broadcaster called “the sticker rebellion” is not a rejection of tourism, said Romero. Instead, as city residents struggle with a record number of tourists, it’s a sincere appeal for a more balanced approach that could allow for a better coexistence between residents and tourists.

    It’s a debate playing out across Europe, as cities from Athens to Amsterdam wrestle with how best to tackle overtourism.

    In Málaga, Romero did all he could to negotiate with his landlord². His landlord’s refusal, however, cast Romero into a desperate search amid the slim pickings of a real estate market where tourist lets have for years surpassed the number of residents in the city centre.

    Fuelled by frustration, he took to the social media page of the bar he owns, posting his own version on the blue AT — Apartamento Turístico or Tourist Apartment — signs that advertise tourist lets in the city. “ATtack against the citizens of the city,” he said, as he invited others to create their own version of these short-term rentals.

(Ashifa Kassam. www.theguardian.com, 30.03.2024. Adaptado.)

 

¹tourist lets: apartamentos que são alugados para turistas para estadias de
curto prazo.
²landlord: proprietário do imóvel.

In the excerpt from the third paragraph “Instead, as city residents struggle with a record number of tourists”, the underlined word can be replaced, without meaning change, by: