Italy, Spain and Greece are on track for a record-setting tourism season. Not everyone is happy about it.
, making up for lost travel time during the pandemic-affected years.And millions of Chinese tourists are expected to visit Europe this summer and fall after the elimination of China’s travel restrictions.Italy is likely to surpass the record number of tourists and overnight stays set in 2019, before Covid struck, according to market research firm Demoskopika.
Crowds are hard to avoid in Vernazza, the Cinque Terre village that sits just south of Monterosso.People on the main street in Vernazza, on a recent Saturday.Locals expect this bar in Corniglia, Italy, another Cinque Terre village, to be very busy this summer.Over in Spain, Barcelona locals hang signs saying “tourists are terrorists.”In Athens, Greece, residents complain about how the spread of Airbnb rentals for tourists is driving up rents and displacing Greeks from the city center.
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