Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by ACow_Adonis on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:05PM (#20956452)

Interesting... here in a relatively touristy part of Melbourne, anecdotally, it's pretty much those backpackers who are working the tables in half of the trendy restaurants and cafes.

There's definitive trends on making food 'instagrammable', but the overall quality and competition between all the restaurants is undeniably good.

Although now that I think about it, you take somewhere like Lygon street famous for its Italian, and the local advice would be to never eat there if you want good Italian (with maybe one or two notable exceptions).

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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by vkou on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:13PM (#20957026)

That's because Australia has incredibly easily accessible tourist working visas. It's what makes it attractive for a broke college kid to bum around in for a few months, in a way that would never happen in Canada, or the United States...

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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:35PM (#20958326)

Wages are also far higher than the US or Canada: the legal minimum wage is $19.49/hour, and many industry unions have negotiated higher rates. This means a backpacker can do menial labor and still save meaningful amounts of money to use for travel, even when accounting for the higher cost of living.

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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by bigger_cheese on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:46AM (#20959508)

I believe in US/Canada if you work in a restaurant Wages are subsidized with tips we don't tip here in Australia so the higher minimum wage probably accounts for that.

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