.A SURGE in holidaymakers at certain sites in recent times has added a word to the English foreign language: overtourism. The concept that beauty spots are being overrun came up properly before the widespread, yet the leisure of covid-19 restrictions created concerns worse, and resulted in the coining of an additional phrase. “Vengeance tourism” describes the outpouring of numerous people, desperate to journey after pair of years cooped up.
On September 12th the city board of Venice, some of the most-blighted metropolitan areas, voted to authorize the absolute most drastic response up until now: the charge of a peak-time entry cost of EUR5 ($ 5.40) for day-trippers. What are other areas doing?