ExFlyBoy5
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Opinion piece on the "overtourism" of Europe. Hypothesis is that cheap airfare is to blame.
Granted, this is an opinion piece but I can see how there could be issues, especially at the more popular destinations. They cite that in 1995 the global tourism number was 525M arrivals and last year it was 1.4B which I think is pretty steep increase.
Personally, I am very happy that I got to see much of the world already thanks to the Air Force when crowds weren't so big. I don't know that I could handle a crowd like the attached picture these days. I am also happy that my favorite get away spot is still relatively quiet (at least during our off peak travel days) and there are no cruise ships crashing into the dock.
At the end of May, reception workers at the Louvre in Paris held a one-day strike complaining that they couldn’t handle the growing, and increasingly aggressive, crowds of visitors. The historic center of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, known to many as King’s Landing in “Game of Thrones,” can’t fit more than 8,000 people at a time. Yet it saw a 53% increase in tourist arrivals, to 101,325, in the first three months of 2019 compared with a year earlier — even limiting the number of cruise ships that can dock there hasn’t helped.
Granted, this is an opinion piece but I can see how there could be issues, especially at the more popular destinations. They cite that in 1995 the global tourism number was 525M arrivals and last year it was 1.4B which I think is pretty steep increase.
Personally, I am very happy that I got to see much of the world already thanks to the Air Force when crowds weren't so big. I don't know that I could handle a crowd like the attached picture these days. I am also happy that my favorite get away spot is still relatively quiet (at least during our off peak travel days) and there are no cruise ships crashing into the dock.