Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
by jacquesm on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:59AM
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Being capped at maximum hotel capacity isn't a bad thing per-se because it gives some measure of control. AirBNB blew that up.
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
by WillPostForFood on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:20AM
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Yes, but being maxed at hotel capacity wasn't solving the the overcrowding problem. It was just pushing tourists further out of the city. It would be like trying to solve traffic in San Francisco by freezing housing construction - it just spreads the problem out over a larger area.
Here is a NY Times article from 1987 talking about the overcrowding problem and limiting the number of tourists in Venice.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/08/world/venice-moves-to-lim...