Overtourism Countermeasures Include Limits on Cruise Ships and Short-Term Rentals
Photo Credit: A cruise ship in Dubrovnik. The city is more popular with tourists thanks in part to Game of Thrones. Flickr.com / Caccamo
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We've been talking about overtourism for a while now and it's good to see cities getting more creative when it comes to managing numbers. Visitors are going to keep coming to the likes of Barcelona, Dubrovnik, and Amsterdam, and therefore these places are going to have to get smarter about managing the flow of people, whether they already live there or not.
European cities are slowly starting to come up with strategies to deal with overtourism.
Amsterdam, Barcelona and Dubrovnik occupy their own corners of the continent and are at various stages of their tourism evolution but in recent years all have had to grapple with the concept of too many tourists – or at least too many tourists at certain times.
While each destination has its own set of challenges, there is plenty of common ground.
Dubrovnik, Croatia, is the latest to experience a surge of tourism growth, at least some of which can be attributed to the makers of Game of Thrones using the city as a shooting location.
In 2016, Dubrovnik welcomed 3.4 million overnight tourists, a rise of 13 percent on the prior year. To put that in context, in 1995 at the end of the Croatian War of Independence, there were only 12.9 million tourists arrivals. In 2015, there were 71.6 million.
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