Fed up with housing shortages, site visitors, noise, air pollution and litter, many fashionable locations in Europe are swapping their ‘come-to-us’ tourism campaigns for ‘please-don’t’ anti-tourism methods — and a few of the measures to discourage guests are fairly extreme.
Actually overrun by vacationers, quite a few essentially the most iconic locations have grow to be unlivable for native residents and overcrowded, unsafe and uncomfortable for guests. The sweetness, serenity and ease of lots of the most bucolic and sought-after locations in Europe can’t survive tens of millions of annual arrivals.
Though it hasn’t reached the extent of an official challenge for the European Union authorities, the talk round the right way to deal with vacationer overflows has began. Large numbers of vacationers — as soon as the golden goose for these sizzling spots — are exactly the reason for the present backlash.
