The rinflux of tourists presents a challenge for Portuguese cities as streets are congested and local residents are edged out by tourists occuping apartments that were once homes.
The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It’s a long rope that, when pulled, rings a bell on the roof that lets him know someone is outside the mountainside mansion that his great-grandfather built in 1914 as a monument to privacy.Travelers idling in standstill traffic outside the sunwashed walls of Casa do Cipreste in Sintra, Portugal, sometimes spot the bell and pull the string “because it's funny," he says.
Cue the violins, you might grouse, for people like Pimentel who are well-off enough to live in places worth visiting. But it's more than a problem for rich people. Personal-finance U.S. Cities With the Most International Tourism The summer of 2023 was defined by the chaos of the journey itself — airports and airlines overwhelmed, passports a nightmare for travelers from the US. Yet by the end of the year, signs abounded that the COVID-19 rush of revenge travel was accelerating.
Japan set records for tourist arrivals. In Fujikawaguchiko, a town that offers some of the best views of Mount Fuji, leaders erected a large black screen in a parking lot to deter tourists from overcrowding the site. The tourists apparently struck back by cutting holes in the screen at eye level.Crowd managementTourism is surging and shifting so quickly, in fact, that some experts say the very term “overtourism” is outdated.
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