As we were leaving the apartment a middle-aged British woman asked us why we are staying in our particular Airbnb in Granada. She lives in the neighborhood and thought it was horrible to hear English in the street (she was talking to us in English, of course). It was great when there were no tourists in the past few years.
She turned out to be Helen Rodgers, author of the book City of Illusions: A History of Granada. We had a nice conversation. We ended up having a nice conversation. The name Ian Gibson was mentioned.
Without tourists, though, Granada would not thrive. I don't know what percentage of their economy depends on tourism, but it has to be high.
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