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Barcelona, Venice and Amsterdam are among Europe's favourite travel destinations and benefit greatly from tourism. However, the massive influx of visitors places a considerable burden on the cities and their inhabitants.

To counteract the negative effects of overtourism, these cities are taking decisive action. Following public protests, no new hotels may be built in Venice and cruise ships will have to use other moorings in future. Amsterdam has banned guided tours of its famous red light district in order to protect local residents. Paris is planning to ban coaches from the city centre in order to improve the quality of life. Other overcrowded cities are also trying to control the situation through various methods.

Do you think that overtourism is a serious problem in Europe?

Sources: National Statistics Offices, Statista, Le Monde, Forbes

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[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

It's so much like no one lives in Venice, and nearly no one's there who didn't arrive on a giant cruise ship or who aren't there selling to the cruise ship class

[โ€“] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

End of 2023. It's right there at the top.

[โ€“] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't. It just says "2023"

[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep. That's what it says. And it generally means the time span from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of the year mentioned there.

[You seriously downvoted me for that? What the hell.]

[โ€“] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

OK now do Honolulu

[โ€“] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

benefit greatly from tourism.

burden on the cities and their inhabitants.

Soo, which is it? Sounds like a bad case of wanting to eat your cake and have it, too. Like, what if Las Vegas and Orlando started figuring out ways to curb tourism? WTF?

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[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but without the tourists, who keeps your restaurants open, etc? It's not like locals eat out every day of the year. There's only so many times they will go to the museum.

It seems tourists are just the latest in a huge line of things we'll blame before figuring out that we just haven't built enough housing in popular areas for all the people that want to be there. That we haven't bothered to invest in things outside the capitals to try and make people want to be there instead.

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