Viewpoint

“If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin. There are just too many people thronging popular destinations—30 million visitors a year to Barcelona, population 1.6 million; 20 million visitors to Venice, population 50,000. La Rambla and the Piazza San Marco fit only so many people, and the summertime now seems like a test to find out just how many that is. [The massive crowds have] cities around the world asking one question: Is there anything to be done about being too popular?” Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic