Overtourism

Quick meaning: Overtourism is a noun meaning Excessive tourism.

Meaning

Excessive tourism.

Example Sentences

‘Athens cannot operate as a giant hotel’: mayor vows to rescue capital from overtourism [title]

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.

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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• over-tourism

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overconsumption, overexploitation, overtaxation, overcommercialization, overexposure, overtension.

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