This is a trend that has been developing for some time, and I decided to put together a StoryMap to collate examples. You can see this lower down this post.
By making this StoryMap collaborative, anyone is free to add their own ideas that they have come across, perhaps in their travels.
Tourism is starting to threaten places in several ways.
Many cities have introduced new rules on tourist behaviours, and there have also been numerous protests from residents too.
This Guardian article sums up many of the issues in Barcelona.
Now some of them are taking more direct action against tourists. These include sprayed slogans, action against tours such as bus trips and protests on tourist beaches.
Paul Berry has blogged on his excellent Devon Geography blog about the impact of tourism in Iceland, as someone who visits fairly regularly. Geographical magazine followed up this story too. Fences are being erected at popular waterfalls to prevent erosion.
Barcelona has been affected by the impact of airbnb in residential neighbourhoods which believe their character is changing.
There is also the 'Game of Thrones' effect in cities such as Dubrovnik. Here, there is a potential for the city's listing as a World Heritage Site to be threatened. As a result, the Mayor is considering some sort of limit on tourists (one option for managing this problem). These large tourist numbers are sometimes the result of cruise ships arriving and disgorging hundreds of passengers for a limited amount of time.
The Mayor said:
There are numerous other examples...
You can now add your own examples to the map below.
It may be better to see it on a laptop or desktop machine rather than the mobile devices that you might be using at the moment to view this blog post.
Thanks in advance for all contributions.
They will be moderated before being added to the map.
I've added 2 examples to get started.
Use the hashtag #geotourismpressures so that they can be collated.
By making this StoryMap collaborative, anyone is free to add their own ideas that they have come across, perhaps in their travels.
Tourism is starting to threaten places in several ways.
Many cities have introduced new rules on tourist behaviours, and there have also been numerous protests from residents too.
This Guardian article sums up many of the issues in Barcelona.
Now some of them are taking more direct action against tourists. These include sprayed slogans, action against tours such as bus trips and protests on tourist beaches.
Paul Berry has blogged on his excellent Devon Geography blog about the impact of tourism in Iceland, as someone who visits fairly regularly. Geographical magazine followed up this story too. Fences are being erected at popular waterfalls to prevent erosion.
Barcelona has been affected by the impact of airbnb in residential neighbourhoods which believe their character is changing.
There is also the 'Game of Thrones' effect in cities such as Dubrovnik. Here, there is a potential for the city's listing as a World Heritage Site to be threatened. As a result, the Mayor is considering some sort of limit on tourists (one option for managing this problem). These large tourist numbers are sometimes the result of cruise ships arriving and disgorging hundreds of passengers for a limited amount of time.
The Mayor said:
"We will lose money in the next two years — a million euros maybe by cutting the number of tourists — but in the future, we will gain much more. We deserve to be a top-quality destination."
"I am not here to make people happy, but to make the quality of life [in this city] better," he added. "Some of the cruise lines will disagree with what I'm saying, but my main goal is to ensure quality for tourists and I cannot do it by the keeping the situation as it is."
Venice has set up a campaign about respecting the city: Enjoy, Respect Venice.
There are numerous other examples...
You can now add your own examples to the map below.
It may be better to see it on a laptop or desktop machine rather than the mobile devices that you might be using at the moment to view this blog post.
Thanks in advance for all contributions.
They will be moderated before being added to the map.
I've added 2 examples to get started.
Use the hashtag #geotourismpressures so that they can be collated.
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