Overtourism
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Overtourism is congestion or overcrowding from an excess of tourists, resulting in conflicts with locals. The World Tourism Organization defines overtourism as "the impact of tourism on a destination,
Crowds at the Trevi Fountain in Rome
New York City has received more than 50 million tourists in 2022. Times Square (pictured) receives around 300,000 visitors each day.
Tourists on the Mediterranean Coast of Barcelona, 2007
Giethoorn is a picturesque village in the Netherlands of some 2900 inhabitants. It receives about 1.5 million tourists per year.
Instagram tourism
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Instagram tourism or selfie tourism is the phenomenon by which an area sees an increase in tourism, often to the point of overtourism, due to exposure on social media and the resulting desire created
Overtourism
…view tourism as a disruptive factor that increasingly burdens daily life, as well as visitors, who may regard high numbers of tourists as a nuisance. Instagram tourism has been implicated as a cause. The term was only used infrequently before 2017, but is now the most commonly used expression to describe the negative…
Tourists taking a selfie at Hokitika Gorge