New The Travel Expert podcast with @Greg_Dickinson features the brilliant Sir Michael Palin on overtourism:
“I take full blame. I make travel programmes. You can’t say only certain people should travel. You want everybody to go if they can”
And much more.
https://t.co/GQ2WbYGUSc
Across Europe, “Tourists Go Home” has become one of the defining images of the growing backlash against overtourism this summer.
But Saudi Tourism Authority and its Visit Saudi brand platform has found the perfect response.
#work
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Overtourism is a major problem for residents living in some of the world’s most popular destinations.
While the best thing you can do is to just not visit these cities in the first place, that’s not to say you shouldn’t travel at all. You just need to choose your holiday spots wisely.
This is where Intrepid Travel’s annual “Not Hot List” comes in, highlighting under-the-radar alternatives where your tourism money will have a positive impact on locals.
Read more at https://t.co/pL7vdfxbEl.
The Spanish island of Mallorca is a tourist paradise, with glittering turquoise seas, hidden coves and white-sand beaches. It is also the epicenter of Europe’s backlash to overtourism. https://t.co/YszNO4yPHn
Publico en @eldiariobalears un análisis de cómo el movimiento contra la turistificación se ha convertido en el eje clave de movilización sociopolítica en Mallorca.
Un movimiento diverso,descentralizado y capaz de movilizar a decenas de miles de personas.
https://t.co/Z8l7YbobN1
Benidorm, barrio de Londres.
Éstos no molestan tanto y sin embargo son consecuencia de una de las cosas que está reventando nuestra sociedad y el medioambiente: turismo basura.
Airbnb, the short-term rental company that has been criticized for worsening the housing affordability crisis in major cities, is creating a $250 million fund to invest in housing projects https://t.co/RuUFMj011o
Global mass tourism is a carbon-intensive industry that destroys local communities and natural environments in many ways. These wildfires in France and Spain, enhanced by the climate crisis, are happening in two major European destinations. Tourism degrowth must be discussed.
A wealthy beach town is experiencing more trash on the streets, near-perpetual gridlock along a retail corridor and residential neighborhoods overrun with parked cars due to “overtourism.” https://t.co/60sY2T8Em9
Residents of Spanish island Mallorca are protesting the overtourism of their home on 26 Sunday July. Menys Turisme, Mes Vida (Less Tourism, More Life) organized the demonstration to fight back against how mass tourism is currently impacting the cost of living for locals.
Die beliebte Ferieninsel erlebt den bisher größten Aufstand gegen die Auswüchse des Tourismus. Und dann feuert die Polizei Gummigeschosse ab. https://t.co/6bnMA0WePd