Portuguese cities try to cope with rising influx of tourists

(19 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon, Portugal – 13 August 2024
1. Wide of Praça do Comércio in downtown Lisbon
2. Tuk-tuk passing by with river Tagus in the background
3. Various of tourists by the river

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Lisbon, Portugal – 14 August 2024
4. Tourists and tuk-tuks arriving at viewpoint over Lisbon
5. Tourists enjoying viewpoint
6. View of Lisbon downtown, the river Tagus and 25th of April bridge
7. Tuk-tuks parked and tourists passing
8. Houses
9. More tuk-tuks arriving
10. Tuk-tuk passing by building where local resident Rosa Alves lives
11. Rosa Alves on her balcony
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosa Alves, 78-year-old local resident:
“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.”
13. Tuk-tuks coming up the street
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosa Alves, 78-year-old local resident:
“If it wasn’t too much I think is alright because everybody needs to work, but there needs to be some kind of control, without any control, it becomes a mess. They stop here and there and then one car wants to leave and they need to wait for the driver of the tuk tuk to come to take it out, because there are too many cars.”
15. Close of sign reading (English) “Stop Gentrification”
16. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosa Alves, 78-year-old local resident:
“For the last five, six years this became a mess. All over Graça (neighborhood), there was a serious change for the worse not for the better.”
17. Pan of tourists enjoying view
18. Wide of Lisbon and cruise ship docked

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Lisbon, Portugal – 13 August 2024
19. Wide of Lisbon Sé Cathedral with tuk tuk passing
20. Tuk-tuks parked
21. Tuk tuk driver speaking with tourists
22. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Francisca Gonçalves, 21-year-old tuk-tuk driver:
“There are many tuk-tuks within the city, it is true, we see that. The truth is that it even affects our work, the more tuk-tuks the more competition, specially now that we feel there is less demand, less people. So, it complicates our own life, but I think the way they are handling the situation is not the most appropriate one.”
23. Wide of Lisbon City hall
24. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Filipe Anacoreta Correia, Deputy Mayor of Lisbon:
“We will implement a new rulebook, we want to do this with the sector and not against them. Our aim is to reduce the number of tuk tuks within the public space to around half.”
25. Tuk tuk
26. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Filipe Anacoreta Correia, Deputy Mayor of Lisbon:
“So this appears to be a solution that allows to conciliate what is important – to safeguard an economic activity that the tourists enjoy, of course. But at the same time to balance it with the interests of a city which is a city, where people live in and need to live, with balance, peace, quality of life and we need to respect one another.”

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Sintra, Portugal – 12 August 2024
27. Wide of Pena Palace on top of Sintra hill
28. Wide of traffic for people trying to enter the UNESCO heritage site
29. Close of banner on top of resident’s house reading (Portuguese) “Chaotic traffic affects residents and visitors”
30. Wide of road with tuk tuk passing by
31. Sign reading (Portuguese) “Sintra not Disneyland”
32. Wide of center of old town of Sintra

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Sintra, Portugal – 9 August 2024
33. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Madalena Martins, Sintra resident and activist for sustainable tourism:

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Sintra, Portugal – 12 August 2024

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