Tourist Quotas Come To French Countryside to Combat Overtourism
Photo Credit: Normandy, France Unsplash / Lauren Gence
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National park and rural authorities in France have absorbed lessons from domestic overtourism during the pandemic.
France’s national parks and countryside towns are implementing systems and strategies to manage the flow of traffic amid the summer travel boom.
During the pandemic, residents flocked to France’s parks and countryside, a megatrend Skift highlighted last year. Towns and villages like Etretat saw higher foot traffic than usual from Paris.
“During the past two years, there were tens of thousands of people coming, especially from the metro Paris region, to this small village which is tucked away between two cliffs, '' said Normandy Tourism Marketing Manager for English-Speaking Markets Ben Collier.
