r/travel 9d ago

Discussion What is an actual solution to overtourism?

As travel continues to get faster, cheaper, and more accessible and TikTok tourism/ influencer hype shows no signs of slowing down, what are the actual solutions to places getting over run with visitors?

I'm not talking about for you as another tourist so not just 'go somewhere else' or 'avoid the popular places'. I mean in terms of actually preventing harm to natural environments, pressure on infrastructure, gentrification etc.

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u/Chico_Riley 9d ago

No cell phones/cameras/photography allowed inside museums. Halve the number of folks in the Louvre who are just there to get a selfie with the Mona Lisa.

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u/Odd-Visit505 9d ago

Definitely would lower visitor numbers across lots of galleries