Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Overtourism on the rise

1 November 2019
The cruise ship 'MSC Preziosa' navigating in the Canale della Giudecca, in Venice, Italy in 2014. (EPA/Andrea Merola)

Global tourism is a booming industry. But in a growing number of places around the world, the surge in tourism is too much of a good thing.

Venice, Italy has been depopulated as year-round residents have fled its historic canals - where they’re now vastly outnumbered by tourists. In the Philippines, the once pristine beaches of the country’s famed Boracay Island were closed for months recently to allow them to recover from the effects of 6 million annual visitors.

In Amsterdam, the crowds are so bad the Dutch tourism board has stopped promoting the city all together - and now encourages people to visit elsewhere.

On this edition of Global Journalist, a look at the spread of this problem - and how tourism sites around the world are trying to adapt.

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Assistant producers: Laura Miserez, Arianna Suardi

Supervising producer: Trevor Hook

Visual editor: Kyle McCubbin

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