Tourism has never had a great reputation, given that the very word tourist is pejorative. At best, it suggests someone whose interest is superficial and whose understanding of a place is nonexistent.
Anti-tourism movements are springing up across the world: that might look like a protest march, as in Barcelona, where one placard bluntly pleaded Tourists go home; you are not welcome here.
Tourism accounts for just over 8% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Short-term holiday rentals distort housing markets until the locals are spending summer months living in car parks as has happened in Ibiza.
Part of this is about sheer volume: the number of people crossing an international border as tourists in 2023 was 1.3 billion, which is not only a complete bounceback post-Covid.
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