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Responsible Tourism by Harold Goodwin

Overtourism is big in the mainstream media.

I put "Overtourism into Google on Sunday, 14th July, at 20:00. These are the top ten responses. Only two of them are pointing out, in the words of Simon Calder in the Independent, "Exclusive: Almost every destination wants more tourists, not fewer."

And the Emmetts are back in the news - see number 5 below

  1. The Independent

Anxious about contributing to overtourism? These locations desperately want you

The list of locations fed up with overtourism seems to grow every day. Barcelona: tourists are berated and squirted with water...

2. Daily Record

Greece warns 'no more UK tourists' as residents rage at 'overtourism' amid 'huge crisis'

The warning to UK tourists comes as shutters over shop fronts in Athens have been covered with graffiti that says: "No more tourism," as...

3. Express.co.uk

Panic in Greece as furious locals explode in latest European over-tourism row

Many families and students have been forced out of their hometowns as an influx of tourism engulfs the Greek capital.

4. Independent

Wish you weren’t here! Holidaymakers face a backlash against ‘overtourism’

They may have escaped the rainy Irish summer and the after-effects of the Aer Lingus pilots' industrial action. but holidaymakers going...

5. The Independent

Overtourism is ruining Cornwall, too – but we’re powerless against the ‘emmets’

As visitors in Barcelona are soaked by demonstrators with water pistols, protests against tourism have reached new heights.

6. North Wales Live

Greece warns 'no more UK tourists' as locals rage over 'overtourism' and 'huge crisis'

Locals in Greece are expressing their anger over the perceived "overtourism" by Brits and UK tourists. Shop fronts in Athens have been...

7. Fortune

Copenhagen wants to do tourism differently by rewarding visitors with free coffee, food and museum passes if they cycle in the city and keep it clean

Whether in Barcelona, where protestors are spraying water at visitors, or in Athens, where overtourism has come to a head, European cities...

8. HuffPost

'It's Tourist Hunting Season': The Street Art That's Seething About Mass Tourism

Graffiti, street art and sticker campaigns are being deployed amid mushrooming protests against overtourism in Spain.

9. The Independent

The true face of overtourism in Spain as homeless levels rocket

Francisco Carrillo sobbed with relief as he lay on the bed in his new apartment in Madrid provided by a charity after three years of...

10. Euronews.com

Water pistols and strikes: What’s behind Europe’s tourism backlash?

Overtourism is putting pressure on health services, waste management, water supplies and housing at the expense of residents.

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