Careful Candles. Selfie-Snappers Jostle for the same shot. Ice cream shops are everywhere. Europe was named the World Museum, but his record number of visitors also did that he took zero for concern over the outdoorism.
Last year, 747 million international passengers visited the continent, far counting on any other region in the world, is stated on the world’s UN tourist barometer. South and Western Europe greeted them more than 70% of them.
As the tides of the passenger streaks of housing, water and the most innocent hot spots in the region, protests and measures to diminish the effects of excessive circumcision were proliferated.
Here’s a look at the question on some of the most visited European destinations.
What causes throughout for education
Among the factors Driving records are cheap flights, social media, the simplicity of travel planning and which UN Tourism officials call strong economic prospects despite geopolitical and economic tensions.
Citizens of countries such as the US, Japan, China and Great Britain create the most international excursions, especially popular destinations, such as Barcelona in Spain and Venice in Italy. They tenderly flip, creating uneven demand for housing and resources such as water.
Despite the popular return case against the crowds, some tourist officials believe that they can be managed by the right infrastructure in place.
The Italian Minister of Tourism Daniel Santanchè said the tourism, such a Uffizi Galleries, which are some of the world’s most famous works, with tourists can buy their transmissions, even pretending forward, to prevent precise.
She withdrew to the idea of Italy – who was like all his southern neighbors, welcomed more international visitors 2024. years – there is a problem with too many tourists, adding that most visits in just 4% of the country’s territory.
“It’s a phenomenon that can be absolutely managed,” Santanchè said on Friday on Friday in his office in her office in her office. “Tourism must be an opportunity, not a threat – even for local communities. That is why we focus on the organization of flows.”
Where the overdue is the remarkment of the most intense
Countries in the Mediterranean are at the head. Olympics host France, the largest international destination, was 100 million international visitors last year, while the second place Spain received almost 94 million – almost twice doubled.
The protests broke out throughout Spain in the last two years. In Barcelona, the water gun became a symbol of anti-tourist movement after marching protests prevented undoubted tourists as they wore signs by saying: “Another tourist, one smaller inhabitants!”
The pressure on the infrastructure was particularly acute on the Spanish canal and Balearic Islands, which have a combined population of less than 5 million people. Each archipelago saw more than 15 million visitors last year.
Elsewhere in Europe, tourist overcrowding has a majority of the most popular places in Italy, including Venice, Rome, Capri and Veron, where Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is set. At the popular coast of Amalfi, the App Ride-Hailing Uber offers a private helicopter and a boat ride in the summer to win crowds.
Greece, who saw almost four times more tourists as their own population, struggles in water, residential and energy in the summer months, especially on the popular islands, such as Santorini, Mykonos and others.
Influence of precondition
In Spain, anti-tourist activists, academics and governments say that the wrapping is initiated by housing in urban centers and other popular locations due to the spread of short-term renters dealing with visitors.
Other Bemoan changes to the very character of the city districts who attracted tourists in the first place.
In Barcelona and elsewhere, activists and the Academics said that the settlements of the popular in tourists saw local stores replaced with souvenirs, international chains and trendy dishes.
In some of the most visited islands of Greece, tourism overlapped with a lack of water because drought catches the Mediterranean country of 10.4 million.
In France, Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, he closed the staff when her staff became a striking that the object was falling apart under the severity of the overdue, in the sun for baking thousands of killed visitors.
Angelos Varvarousis, and Academic and Urban and Urban Planner based in Athens who study the industry, said that the tourist risks imposes “monoculture” on many European foci.
“It is combined with gradual loss and shifting other social and economic activities,” Varvarousis said.
What do authorities do to wear
The Spanish government wants to deal with what officials call the largest challenge in the country: its residential crumb.
Last month, the Spanish government ordered the Airbnb to bring down almost 66,000 properties written by local rules – while Barcelona announced that in the city as a short-term rental until 2028. years. Years.
By the way, the authorities tried to regulate tourist flows by shooting on overnight stays or imposing fees for those visits through cruises.
In Greece, from 1. July, a cruise tax will be charged on the island visitors to 20 euros ($ 23) for popular destinations such as Mycons and 5 euros ($ 5.70) for less than one islands like Samos.
The government also encouraged visitors to seek quieter locations.
For mitigation, the water tank from the Greece helped intimidated islands, and the islands also used desalination technology, which separate salts from ocean water to encourage drinking water.
Other measures included light visits in the Acropolis.
Meanwhile, Venice returned a ticket this year that last year was piloted on daily tripsers who would have to pay between 5 and 10 euros (approximately $ 12) for entering the city during the top.
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AP Journalists Laurie Kellman in London, Derek Gatopoulos in Athens and David Biller in Rome have contributed.