Dubrovnik, Croatia for many years, has a great deal of summer visitors to a crowded parking lot for summer visitors to visit the local governments repeatedly, and local governments are repeatedly visited by local governments. We have repeatedly introduced measures to reduce the size and impact of customers. Many self -napers.
However, it knows that a large number of visitors from Croatia's recent victory of Tourism have increased their arrival in cities by 9 % in 2024 compared to 2023. Not. The Minister of Tourism, Toni Gravina, was quoted as saying.
If 2024 is a year in which concerns about overtourism have achieved important mistakes around the world, protests from Amsterdam to Canary Islands, and causes new regulations from Iceland to Indonesia. It was the year of how it was revealed. If you reduce the complex tourism, it can be the case if it is released.
This year, more places can enact measures, but there are still lack of evidence about how sightseeing is restricted. Competition economic benefits can hinder attempts to stop the tide of tourists.
“The difficult truth is that we have arrived once,” said Rachel Dods, a tourist management professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Many years of problem
Earlier, in 2010, sightseeing experts observed that some destinations were approaching and that they had exceeded their abilities. By the middle of the past decade, cities, such as Amsterdam and Barcelona, have begun to take provisional measures to alleviate the impact of infrastructure, housing, environment, and quality of life.
However, the first time after the pandemic, the “VEN Travel” gathered visits to more destinations, and the efforts to apply brakes became wider.
This year, travelers will feel the influence of those efforts. New laws that regulate Airbnbs and other short -term rentals will be enforced in France, Czech Republic and Greece. There, 24.5 % of foreign visitors in 2024 are slow to 24.5 % (up to 20 euros per day) of 24.5 % of the previous year.
The port from Ibiza, Spain to Juneau, Alaska, restricts the number of cruise ships that can be docked at the same time, reducing the number of passengers permitted every day. Belgian Bruges imposed a similar measure in 2024, and stopped building a new hotel, and found that the accommodation facilities were exploiting a loophole and passed another measure in November. It hindered the addition of the rooms and beds to be provided.
In Italy, tourists are limited to 20,000 a day by Pompeii, and new laws in Florence may prevent tourists from using golf carts to use tools.
In New Zealand, visitors must pay $ 100 tourism tax. This was three times that of most people last year, doubling the price of the Galapagos Islands to $ 200. In Japan, the town of the mountainous area has recently restricted the number of tourists as several Mt. Fuji and Kyoto. In South Korea, authorities impose a bargain at night in the historic regions of Seoul, reducing excess of tourists.
Does the regulation work?
“The main problem is that we have used a tourist model that has been written as” some cost “for many years,” said Marina Noveli, the director of the Sustainable Travel and Tourism Higher Research Center. I am. Nottingham. “We are now in a situation where all of these types are being implemented, such as restricting numbers and sightseeing taxes as a reactive strategy.”
It is still unknown whether these strategies work. It suggests that the evidence is uneven and it takes a long time for measures to be effective. For example, Barcelona conducted the first sightseeing tax in 2012, limited short -term rentals in 2015, and restricted new hotels in 2017. The annual arrival rate was a modest decrease of 0.7 % for 2023. At Amsterdam, which began to target over -three in 2016, it is expected that the arrival will rise to 26 million in 2026.
Having numbers is not always the main purpose. For example, the upper limit of short -term rentals is frequently posed as a solution to the shortage of housing, but the purpose of sightseeing tax is to offset the tension that over -conryism can be placed in resources.
“Some places like Newness and Hawaii are trying to do it as a more playback or steward ship scale,” said Dods. “I think it's punishable to others, like Venice, and I think that I will pup the taxes and persuade people to not come.”
It was set to almost the same amount of coffee and cornet, which was introduced last year, a 5 -euro fee in Venice, but it was almost surprising. Venice seems to have reached the same conclusion. This year, the rate will double to 10 euros.
Does it have more effects? No one knows, according to Ko Koens, a professor of urban tourism of the INHOLLAND UNIVERSITY for the Applied Sciences. “I can tell you that 5 euros will not work,” he said. “But there is not enough data to know how expensive at work.”
Venice's other measures are also lacking. The city has recently begun detouring a cruise ship from the historic center. This initiative can reduce environmental damage, but does not have an identified impact on the number of passengers. In the fall of 2024, Venice predicted a 9 % increase of 2023 or more, thanks to the newly distributed port.
In fact, restricting passengers in a certain area can lead over -to -one rhythm to another area. “It's like a water bed,” Corn said. “By spreading people elsewhere, you are potentially increasing outdoor problems.”
New York City has begun a short -term rental ban last year. Some experts correlated with the rise of 7 % of the hotel fee in 2024 the previous year sent tourists to the area where rental was legal. According to the analysis site AIRDNA, New Jersey is the rapid growing market in the United States in Airbnb demand. However, it does not seem to reduce the number of tourists in New York itself. The city expects 1.4 million in 2025 to surpass the record of 66.6 million in 2019.
Dubrovnik, Copenhagen, and resistance to restrictions
The biggest obstacle to solving over -conryism may be a lack of consensus that it is actually a problem. As a source of revenue and employment -worldwide tourism created a record $ 1.6 trillion in 2024 -Travel is an engine for economic growth.
For its role, most attempts to limit sightseeing are faced on the opposite. Witness a recent decision to abolish Bali's planned moratorium on the construction of a new hotel.
Mato Frankovic, the mayor of Dubrovnik, experienced the resistance. The number of cruise ships was reduced, the rental of the old town was limited, and the number of outdoor cafes and chairs were reduced by 30 %, and the number of souvenirs increased by 70 %. “The opposition said I was going to ruin the city,” said Francovic.
He was patient. This year, the city will reduce the number of taxis. Here are some apps that regulate the arrival of the tour bus and adjust the visitors directly to another site at the peak. It also enactes a national law that requires 80 % of other residents to get consent before renting an apartment.
However, even if local governments or regional authorities have decided to make changes, you will be aware that you are opposed to the central government, which prioritizes economic growth.
Take Copenhagen. In 2024, the city council approved a tourism tax as a good way to prevent it from ending like Barcelona. However, the Central Government, which is currently expanding the airport in Copenhagen, has recently announced plans to increase annual tourism revenues from 152 billion to $ 28 billion (about $ 28 billion) per year by 2030.
Search for actual solutions
Such a dispute is a reason that many experts believe that they need deeper changes.
Dods of the University of Toronto Metropolitan said that the solution needed to reconsider the definition of success. “UN sightseeing is still measuring success by the number of arrivals. This is essentially permanent the issues of advantages.” “So you need a conversation, how do you change the indicator of success?”
There are signs that new metric has appeared. Both Bruges and Norwegi have drawn out tourist advertising campaigns last year, and some cruises and tour companies spontaneously hurt Santorini and Miconos from the 2025 and 2026 itinerary.
However, the total training seems to be expanding that 12.4 % increased worldwide in 2025 at the level of 2019. “I don't know if there is a solution,” said Novelli of Nottingham University. “I am responsible and” What do you know? You don't have to see Venice. I'm not going to go. “
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