(19 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon – 14 August 2024
1. Tourists and tuk tuks arriving at viewpoint over Lisbon
2. View of Lisbon downtown, with river Tagus and 25th of April bridge in the background
3. Tuk tuks arriving
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosa Alves, Lisbon resident: +++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 3++
“Everyday first thing in the morning, when it’s good weather even more so. When it’s raining or its cloudy they may not come, but as soon as the sun starts to shine they start coming up the street.”
5. Tuk-tuks coming up the street
6. Close of sign reading “Stop Gentrification”
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosa Alves, Lisbon resident: ++PARTLY OVERLAID SHOT 6++
“For the last five, six years this became a mess. All over Graça, there was a serious change for the worse not for the better.”
8. Wide of Lisbon with cruise ship docked for the day
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sintra, Portugal – 12 August 2024
9. Wide of Pena Palace on top of Sintra hill
10. Wide of traffic bringing people to the UNESCO heritage site
11. Sign reading “Sintra not Disneyland”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sintra, Portugal – 9 August 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Madalena Martins Sintra resident and activist for sustainable tourism: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 11++
“We usually joke by saying, and we also mean it, that Byron (referring to poet Lord Byron) used to say Sintra was ‘Eden on earth’ but now ‘it became hell.’”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sintra, Portugal – 12 August 2024
15. Wide of center of old town of Sintra
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sintra, Portugal – 9 August 2024
16. tilt up from tourists looking to signs next to one resident’s house who joined the protest for sustainable tourism
17. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Madalena Martins, Sintra resident and activist for sustainable tourism: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 16++
“We don’t intend to harass the tourists, not at all, that is not our aim. We want for the tourists to become our allies and to understand that there is a problem here.”
18. Close of banner reading (English) “Sintra: a traffic jam in paradise”
STORYLINE:
One tuk-tuk, two tuk-tuks, three tuk-tuks, well, better stop counting.
All around Lisbon these auto rickshaws have become widespread in recent years.
Fuelled by the rise of tourism in Portugal, the narrow streets have become clogged with them.
From her balcony, Rosa Alves says she does not even try to count them anymore, as soon as the sun rises they start, carrying tourists to the top of the hill.
One after another they bring visitors from all over the world looking to experience the views from the hills of Lisbon, without the walking.
Rosa lives on the one-way street that takes locals and tourists up the hill to the popular viewpoint that offers one of Lisbon’s most spectacular panoramic scenes.
The 78-year-old pensioner has been living in her apartment for the past 50 years but she says things have never been so bad in Graça, her beloved neighbourhood.
More tourists, more tuk-tuks and more traffic.
According to Rosa and reports on Portuguese media, sometimes residents can’t even leave their homes whenever they want due to the traffic and parked tuk-tuks blocking their way.
On the other side of the road there is graffiti saying: “Stop Gentrification”.
Alves didn’t write it, but she sympathises with the message.
In addition to the traffic the area has changed: her neighbors started to leave and strangers became the most common next door presence as holiday rentals took over.
AP video shot by Helena Alves
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