Marta Vidal talks to Maria Augusta, 85, who lives in fear of eviction since her building was sold to a company planning to invest in short-term rentals.
Lurdes Magalhães no longer sees her neighbours; she only sees tourists. The neighbourhood chatter has been replaced by the sound of suitcase wheels on the cobblestones.
Tourism is booming in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, where visitors now outnumber residents eight to one – a higher ratio than Barcelona or London – according to the Institute for Tourism Planning and Development.
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