It’s time to address tourism’s invisible burden

A free report will be released next week — “#Destinations at Risk: The Invisible Burden of #Tourism”. The Travel Foundation Chairman Noel Josephides explains why it was commissioned, in this "#GoodTourism" Insight ...

Thanks mainly to the phenomenon known as overtourism, the future of our industry has become a regular topic for trade conferences and the trade and consumer travel media. So much so, that “overtourism” became one of Oxford Dictionary’s “Words of the Year” in 2018. This discourse follows a familiar pattern, raising examples of destinations struggling to cope, and pointing to various factors that may be aggravating the problem. The natural conclusion is invariably that we need “better destination management”.

However, these overtourism-inspired debates have not particularly helped our understanding of what “better destination management” is, why it hasn’t happened already, and what needs to change to make it happen, in a global context ...

Full story at https://goodtourismblog.com/2019/03/time-to-address-tourism-invisible-burden/