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[quote=Anonymous]Good article in FT about overtourism esp in Europe and specifically Amsterdam and the steps it is now taking to reduce tourism including forcing the airport ti reduce flights, shutting sex shops, etc.

There is a firewall so link doesn’t work but you can google title for access. “Tourists are back. Is it time to tell them to stay away?”. Some excerpts:

At times, European anti-tourist rhetoric echoes European anti-immigration rhetoric. A common line is, “We are being swamped by misbehaving invaders who refuse to adapt to our superior culture.” In truth, of course, tourists don’t have a monopoly on misbehaviour. They probably behave worse on average in places branded with an image of “moral holiday”, like Amsterdam and Bali, and better in Paris with its intimidating etiquette.

Social media has worsened an ancient tourist tendency to treat the place you are visiting as a backdrop. People visit a city, in spirit, with their online followers. Any locals encountered can seem like extras on a stage-set, there to add colour to pictures or act as auxiliary tourist information officers.

In Barcelona, the number of tourists staying in hotels jumped from 1.7mn in 1990 to 9.5mn in 2019 — a number that excludes the city’s Airbnbs, some of them entire buildings that have been removed from the local housing market and essentially offshored.

In some neighbourhoods of Paris, the paper says, the number of foreign visitors per sq km exceeded 100,000. For comparison: Paris’s 20,000 inhabitants per sq km already make it Europe’s densest city.
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