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#overtourism — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Rome Is Fighting Back Against a Golf Cart ‘Invasion’

    Beneath the splendor of its monuments and ruins, Rome is taking aim at a modern-day chariot: the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Congestion #golfcart #Italy #overtourism #Rome #Tourism #Tourists #Traffic #World
    newsbeep.com/729173/

  2. Rome Is Fighting Back Against a Golf Cart ‘Invasion’

    Beneath the splendor of its monuments and ruins, Rome is taking aim at a modern-day chariot: the…
    #Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #congestion #golfcart #Overtourism #TOURISM #tourists #traffic
    europesays.com/italy/47424/

  3. Summer in Amsterdam. Cartoon from last year (for Dutch newspaper Trouw), but guess what, it’s still relevant. If anything, I drew too few tourists in the cartoon…

    #masstourism #overtourism

  4. Reclaimining a sense of place
    Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

    "Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
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    theconversation.com/overtouris
    #tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

  5. Another summer of disruption? Spain’s anti-tourism protests reignite ahead of Easter break.

    Last summer, Spain erupted with protests driven by the soaring tourist numbers putting a strain on residents’ daily lives.

    More than 90 million foreign visitors descended on the country in 2024.

    Residents say new government measures are not enough to combat the negative effects of mass tourism.

    mediafaro.org/article/20250404

    #Spain #Tourism #Overtourism #Travel #MassTourism

  6. So authentic!!

    Overtourism creates dramatic problems everywhere in the world, making it hard for locals to live in their own city, or to find a house, driving prices higher and higher and turning city centers into amusement parks.

    #tourism #overtourism #masstourism #cartoon #politicalcartoon #satire #tourist