overtourism

See also: over-tourism

English

Alternative forms

• over-tourism

Etymology

over- +‎ tourism

Noun

overtourism (uncountable)

1. Excessive tourism.
   • 2018, Alastair M. Morrison, Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 94:

     As evidenced in the overtourism concept, residents may become resentful of the intrusions of visitors and visitors' impacts on their ways of living (Figure 9.2). Thus, it is essential that residents are involved and have a strong say […]

   • 2019 June 4, Annie Lowrey, “Too Many People Want to Travel”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera.

   • 2024 April 24, Angela Giuffrida, “Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     After years in the making, Venice will on Thursday begin charging day trippers to enter the city in an effort to protect the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of over-tourism.

Translations

excessive tourism

• French: surtourisme (fr) m
• Greek: υπερτουρισμός (el) m (ypertourismós)
• Polish: overturyzm (pl)