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This ranking puts in perspective how crowded some destinations get come summertime
Every summer season, many European cities face an increasingly uncomfortable dilemma – stay popular and attractive to tourists, but not too much. The trend of increasing crowds of tourists flocking to popular destinations has been on the rise for decades now, spurred on by things like boosted standards of living, budget airlines, availability of information and promotion through social media, or just a general fear of missing out (or FOMO).
That, however, has also brought along an undesirable effect known as ‘overtourism’, which despite its economic benefits carries connotations and marks of environmental degradation, destruction of local sense of community and culture and exploitation of scarce resources. Plus, it overall makes some cities feel more like theme parks than actual functioning communities.
The German online holiday rental company Holidu has done some research and compiled a list of the European cities that are most overloaded by tourists. Their ranking seeks to bring attention to a need to diversify and spread out tourism flows outside of the high-season framework, as a way to lessen the burden on these popular spots.
Word of advice, the ranking was done using 2019 statistical data of yearly tourist visits to a city compared to its permanent population. Thus, it reflects the height of the pre-COVID era and with recent trends showing full recovery from the pandemic pause, it is only natural to expect that things might be even worse.
Here we have the top five European cities, where the tourists/locals ratio gets very extreme:
You can check out the rest of the ranking, which consists of 35 cities here.
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