overtourism

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Overtourism is what happens to a place when an avalanche of tourists “changes the quality of life for people who actually live there,” says Andrew Sheivachman, an editor at the travel website Skift, whose 2016 report about Iceland established the term.

Travel has never been "authentic" Kyle Chayka 2019
The term “overtourism” was coined in 2016 by Skift, a travel news outlet, with Iceland as its poster child.

The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals? Zoe Williams 2024
The term “overtourism” was coined in 2016 by Skift, a travel news outlet, with Iceland as its poster child.

The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals? Zoe Williams 2024