See this powerful short documentary exploring Overtourism, featuring interviews with local residents and global experts. Overtourism occurs when there are too many visitors to a particular destination.
When rent prices push out local tenants to make way for holiday rentals, narrow roads become jammed with tourist vehicles and tourists cannot view landmarks because of the crowds. These are all signs of overtourism.
The backlash from local residents has made overtourism news. Cities such as Barcelona, Venice and Dubrovnik. And places once thought of as remote, such as Iceland and Skye, have suffered firsthand. And the protests by local residents have spread.
There has been decades of virtually uncontrolled growth, and it has crossed a threshold. In many destinations, tourism now creates more problems than benefits.
Learn more on Responsible Travel at: responsibletravel.com/copy/overtourism
– a transformation of a destination, person or business generating economical, social and environmental improvement
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