Category: Overtourism

Venice bans tour groups bigger than 25 people

Venice has banned tour guides from using megaphones and limited their groups to 25 people.

Why do locals in Barcelona support Airbnb crackdown?

In Spanish cities suffering from overtourism, rules have slowly been introduced to help regulate numbers, including limits on the number of tourist rentals.

Locals in Málaga protest tourism amid rising rents and gentrification

Marching under the slogan ‘Málaga for living, not surviving’, last weekend 15,000 people took to the streets to demand affordable housing and protest mass-tourism in the Costa del Sol city.

Thousands of Barcelona residents protest overtourism

Thousands of Barcelona residents have taken to the streets to protest overtourism.

Greece proposes cruise restrictions for Santorini and Mykonos

Another booming destination is talking openly about creating new restrictions for cruise ships. This time, it's Greece. Saying both Santorini and Mykonos are stressed by tourism, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he wants to restrict cruise ship berths or create a bidding process for ships to call at its popular islands, according to a Bloomberg report.

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