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overtourism

noun

  1. excessive tourism
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From over- + tourism.

  1. Excessive tourism.

    As evidenced in the overtourism concept, residents may become resentful of the intrusions of visitors and visitors' impacts on their ways of living (Figure 9.2). Thus, it is essential that residents are involved and have a strong say […]

    If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera.

overtourism — meaning, definition (noun) · Vinony