Global Green Destinations Event provides opportunity to share new approaches to tourism that seek to avoid mass tourism becoming increasingly intrusive and disruptive to local communities.
As the backlash against mass tourism in some European cities continues, a company in the Portuguese capital is teaching visitors how to appreciate its city in a responsible way.
As the detritus from another summer season is swept from the streets of holiday hot spots, locals are wondering if it was all worth it. Disquiet has grown about tourists behaving badly and making local communities suffer for their pleasure.
The gambling-ridden clan jetties of Malaysia’s George Town were saved from ruin by the award of Unesco world heritage status, but their new fame left locals overwhelmed by a tide of invasive tourism.
Mallorca and Ibiza in Spain have long welcomed hoards of travelers, but recently, both destinations—like many places across the continent—have begun to struggle under the strain of a swelling number of tourists.
