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23 November 2018

In less than two years, the concept of overtourism has come to prominence as one of the most discussed issues with regards to tourism in popular media and, increasingly, academia. In spite of its popularity, the term is still not clearly delineated a...

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35 Citations
19,428 Views
19 Pages

Overtourism has emerged as a common concept to describe the perceived negative impacts that large numbers of tourists can have on destinations. Iceland is one of the destinations which has been most associated with the concept of overtourism. Tourism...

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From Overtourism to Regeneration: A Penta-Helix Governance Model for Sustainable Tourism in Bali

  • I. G. P. B. S. Mananda,
  • I. M. K. Negara,
  • Y. Kristianto,
  • I. G. K. H. Angligan and
  • C. Deuchar

8 November 2025

Destinations such as Bali face intensifying overtourism, which undermines ecological integrity, cultural authenticity, and local livelihoods. Traditional sustainable tourism approaches have proven insufficient, leading to calls for regenerative touri...

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35 Citations
8,571 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2020

As the demands of tourism become increasingly bigger, there are side effects of rapid quantitative growth, representatively, over-tourism. As efforts at minimizing over-tourism, the possibilities of temporal and seasonal distribution were explored. F...

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155 Citations
21,971 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2019

Increasing worldwide evidence on disruptive unsustainable impacts, caused by growing overtourism, is shaking tourism research agendas and destination management styles. Monitoring the risks of overtourism is becoming a relevant issue for every destin...

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19 Citations
3,716 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2020

This article presents considerations on business models, overtourism, and sustainable development on an example of the most important Polish tourist destination, which is Krakow. The purpose of the article is to identify the values generated and capt...

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11 Citations
7,687 Views
15 Pages

The coronavirus outbreak in late 2019 and the subsequent restrictions on mobility and physical contacts caused an extreme collapse of international tourism. Shortly before the pandemic turned the world upside down, one of the most pressing issues in...

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16 Citations
5,377 Views
20 Pages

With a constantly and rapidly increasing number of publications, modern expertise on overtourism is becoming increasingly complete. However, a subject that has not been sufficiently presented in the literature thus far is the issue of identifying gro...

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115 Citations
40,673 Views
15 Pages

9 January 2020

Overtourism problems, anti-tourist movements and negative externalities of tourism are popular research approaches and are key concepts to better understand the sustainable development of tourism destinations. In many of the overtourism narratives, V...

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22 Citations
7,964 Views
13 Pages

5 March 2020

Tunisia is a destination where organised mass tourism has prevailed since 1985. This trend is still being observed, despite the unstable geopolitical situation in North Africa. Current reports from booking portals indicate that this country will be o...

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42 Citations
9,293 Views
26 Pages

16 March 2020

This article contributes to the discussion on the sustainability of the sharing economy by adopting the Social Capital Theory to expand explanations of the sharing economy’s role and scope of relations with local communities in the context of o...

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35 Citations
17,177 Views
25 Pages

Overtourism in Iceland: Fantasy or Reality?

  • Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir,
  • C. Michael Hall and
  • Margrét Wendt

8 September 2020

Iceland has been one of the main destinations that have been incorporated into the discourse of overtourism. However, Iceland is different to many other supposed overtourism destinations in that its tourism is based on natural areas. Nevertheless, de...

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46 Citations
11,105 Views
26 Pages

Deconstructing the Overtourism-Related Social Conflicts

  • Piotr Zmyślony,
  • Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł and
  • Monika Dembińska

24 February 2020

The debate on overtourism still lacks conceptual precision in its delineation of the constituent elements and processes. In particular, conflict theory is rarely adopted, even though the social conflict is inscribed into the nature of this phenomenon...

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107 Citations
26,304 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2019

Debates on overtourism, as a challenging phenomenon, are becoming more and more active. The purpose of this integrative review paper is to discuss the right to travel and residents’ rights in the context of overtourism and sustainable tourism,...

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53 Citations
12,356 Views
14 Pages

The term overtourism has generated considerable attention both in academic discourse and public debate. The actual or perceived impact of overtourism on destinations has significant ecological, social, and cultural consequences. However, a crucial qu...

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30 Citations
6,559 Views
20 Pages

11 January 2022

Overtourism refers not only to situations in which carrying capacity levels have been exceeded, but also to those in which tourists and residents share negative feelings of discomfort and other emotions, loss of quality of life and unpleasant experie...

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26 Citations
8,338 Views
17 Pages

25 August 2021

The tourism debate prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was dominated by the problems inherent in overtourism, reflecting an inadequate land management. Although publications on overtourism have grown exponentially in recent years, its scientific study sti...

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48 Citations
12,584 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2019

The problem of overtourism, i.e., tourist congestion in visited places, and the negative impacts of tourists on the environment and residents, are increasingly noticeable with the increase in popularity of tourism. In addition, human impact on the en...

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21 Citations
9,574 Views
23 Pages

Museums and Coping with Overtourism

  • Monika Murzyn-Kupisz and
  • Dominika Hołuj

6 March 2020

Newer strains of tourism research are often aimed at finding out good practices for dealing with overtourism and propose a broader understanding of stakeholders of sustainable tourism development. Drawing on qualitative empirical findings from two in...

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279 Citations
70,515 Views
18 Pages

Overtourism: A Literature Review to Assess Implications and Future Perspectives

  • Alessandro Capocchi,
  • Cinzia Vallone,
  • Mariarita Pierotti and
  • Andrea Amaduzzi

15 June 2019

Overtourism is an emerging concept facing the world’s main tourist destinations. The growth that tourism has undergone in recent decades is of two different types. On the one hand, the development of new technologies and the creation of low-cost airl...

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53 Citations
9,854 Views
22 Pages

Urban Planning Regulations for Tourism in the Context of Overtourism. Applications in Historic Centres

  • Manuel de la Calle-Vaquero,
  • María García-Hernández and
  • Sofía Mendoza de Miguel

23 December 2020

The rapid growth in urban tourism has brought great pressure to the historic centres, intensifying the negative externalities that threaten their protection and proper functioning. The aim of this article is to analyse the use of urban planning regul...

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15 Citations
7,592 Views
19 Pages

Addressing the Phenomenon of Overtourism in Budapest from Multiple Angles Using Unconventional Methodologies and Data

  • Betsabé Pérez Garrido,
  • Szabolcs Szilárd Sebrek,
  • Viktoriia Semenova,
  • Damla Bal and
  • Gábor Michalkó

16 February 2022

This paper addresses the phenomenon of overtourism in Budapest from multiple perspectives, starting with an overview that uses information collected from news, media, and academic tourism literature. Further, the phenomenon of overtourism is addresse...

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32 Citations
8,628 Views
22 Pages

How Overtourism Threatens Large Urban Areas: A Case Study of the City of Wrocław, Poland

  • Wojciech Fedyk,
  • Mariusz Sołtysik,
  • Janusz Olearnik,
  • Katarzyna Barwicka and
  • Anna Mucha

27 February 2020

Excessive tourist traffic concentration in cities of high tourist attractiveness often leads to overtourism, manifested, among others, by overcrowding in appealing areas and means of transport, rising prices, or degradation of natural and cultural re...

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14 Citations
13,681 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2023

Overtourism is appearing more and more often in large world-famous cities and in many rural regions, where the infrastructure capacity is insufficient for large numbers of visitors. In rural communities, this creates resistance to tourism, traffic co...

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39 Citations
8,170 Views
19 Pages

8 June 2023

Overtourism has become a critical problem in many popular destinations around the world, leading to negative impacts on the environment, local communities, and the quality of the visitor experience. This article explores the potential of the metavers...

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7 Citations
5,360 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2020

Overtourism has given rise to conflict among various stakeholders. Accordingly, to control overtourism, the public sector has started to implement policies. Recently, Udo off Jeju Island in South Korea has begun experiencing overtourism; to prevent t...

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1,291 Views
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9 December 2025

Tourism today represents a strategic engine of economic growth, contributing substantially to GDP, employment, and export revenues. Accounting for approximately 10% of global GDP, the sector plays a significant role in tourism-intensive countries. To...

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71 Citations
24,372 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2020

Even though overtourism became the object of extensive scientific research only three years ago, different definitions and approaches to the issue can be seen. However, it is still in the initial phase of research, and there are numerous gaps in our...

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9 Citations
6,810 Views
30 Pages

This paper aims at addressing sustainability concerns in vulnerable insular territories. Such concerns are due to the rising overtourism phenomenon that affects islands at a rapidly escalating pace and renders sustainable local development of these o...

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1,746 Views
29 Pages

Participation Matters: A Comparative Assessment of Urban Governance Responses to Overtourism

  • Efthymia Sarantakou,
  • Panagiota Moschopoulidou and
  • Kyriaki Giannoulatou

19 November 2025

This article explores participatory planning as a key tool for addressing the challenges of overtourism, a phenomenon that exerts complex pressures on the environment, social cohesion, and the cultural identity of cities, despite its contribution to...

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2 Citations
2,527 Views
26 Pages

Agent-Based Model Applied for the Study of Overtourism in an Urban Context

  • Janwar Moreno,
  • Jairo Parada and
  • David Daniel Peña-Miranda

5 April 2025

This research aims to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of residents and tourists in an urban context, assessing the risk of overtourism. To achieve this, a tourist city is conceptualized as a complex system and examined through an agent-...

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25 Citations
6,272 Views
26 Pages

Urban Industrial Tourism: Cultural Sustainability as a Tool for Confronting Overtourism—Cases of Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen

  • Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt,
  • Antonio Palacios-García,
  • Diego Barrado-Timón and
  • José Antonio Rodríguez-Esteban

22 April 2021

The chief objective of this research was to analyze how the industrial heritage of three European capitals—Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen—has been integrated into the dynamics of their urban tourism, thereby generating new resources and cultural sp...

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5 Citations
7,696 Views
15 Pages

10 April 2020

As overtourism has become a serious threat to the tourism industry in recent years, this study attempts to extend the theoretical framework of organization-public relationship (OPR) developed in the public relations scholarship to the context of over...

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13 Citations
5,365 Views
17 Pages

Counteracting Overtourism Using Demarketing Tools: A Logit Analysis Based on Existing Literature

  • Umut Gülşen,
  • Hüseyin Yolcu,
  • Pelin Ataker,
  • İlke Erçakar and
  • Sevil Acar

24 September 2021

Over the past few decades, demarketing has come up as an unorthodox but potentially strong approach that can be used to counter the negative effects of oversaturation in tourism destinations. This study investigates the difference that demarketing st...

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20 Citations
5,902 Views
15 Pages

A Break from Overtourism: Domestic Tourists Reclaiming Nature during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Margrét Wendt,
  • Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir and
  • Edda R. H. Waage

7 September 2022

Natural areas are often of particular importance for residents as venues for recreation and domestic tourism. However, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, overtourism was a major challenge for many nature-based tourism destinations worldwide, and led to...

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95 Citations
25,539 Views
17 Pages

Are Social Media Data Pushing Overtourism? The Case of Barcelona and Chinese Tourists

  • María-del-Mar Alonso-Almeida,
  • Fernando Borrajo-Millán and
  • Liu Yi

17 June 2019

Overtourism spoils the good economic and social results produced by the tourism sector, causing reductions in the quality of service of the tourist destination and rejection by the local population. Previous literature has suggested that social netwo...

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46 Citations
8,679 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2019

Accommodation saturation is transcendental in island destinations; especially when we include it in the sustainability paradigm. A coastal tourism area is considered saturated when tourists feel the area is overbuilt. This can lead to unpleasant expe...

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1 Citations
4,291 Views
24 Pages

25 July 2025

The rapid rebound of global tourism post-pandemic has intensified pressure on destinations like Istanbul and Athens, bringing overtourism debates into sharp focus. This study examined how five sustainability dimensions (economic, environmental, socio...

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11 Citations
4,811 Views
11 Pages

The Relationship of Subjective Well-Being in Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Overtourism in the City of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil

  • Fabrícia Durieux Zucco,
  • Pablo Flores Limberger,
  • Fernanda de Souza Farias,
  • Thamires Foletto Fiuza and
  • Cynthia Morgana Boos de Quadros

4 March 2020

Tourism is an expanding sector, and it is one of the priorities of individuals seeking leisure. While the activity is developing rapidly, the increase in the flow of tourists in localities has interfered with the residents’ subjective well-bein...

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16 Citations
6,263 Views
17 Pages

21 September 2019

Popular tourism destinations based on specific attractions along with coastal and island destinations have been considered potential candidates to suffer from overtourism. In this context, in-depth knowledge of the determinants of tourists’ cho...

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25 Citations
4,993 Views
32 Pages

4 June 2021

The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 has placed the tourism sector in an unfavourable position. It has altered the reality of destinations worldwide, changing the paradigm of tourism and showing an unusual scenario within the tourism sector, the under...

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19 Citations
6,161 Views
29 Pages

Calcerous tufa and sinter are among the most impressive natural spectacles in karst landscapes whose scientific and aesthetic value is universally recognized. Being visually often very appealing they attract numerous visitors. At the same time tufa l...

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13 Citations
8,501 Views
16 Pages

23 September 2023

For a number of years, heritage resources have suffered the negative effects of tourist pressure. Overtourism has been generating a wide-ranging debate on this issue. This work focuses on the strategies and measures adopted to address overtourism dur...

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2 Citations
2,744 Views
19 Pages

30 October 2024

Garden managers face the dilemma of promoting and preserving their gardens. Overtourism in popular gardens can be solved by cooperating to entice visitors to alternative, less popular gardens. However, such an enticement strategy may not be successfu...

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2 Citations
2,601 Views
27 Pages

Cultural heritage in insular regions faces increasing challenges due to overtourism, seasonal economies, and insufficient protection frameworks. This study investigates the adaptive reuse of Sarakina Mansion, a deteriorated 18th-century estate on the...

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747 Views
23 Pages

15 December 2025

Tourism, although a key driving force for the flourishing of local/regional and national economies, is also a source of distinct negative repercussions, e.g., the intense use of scarce resources, environmental deterioration, social marginalization, a...

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74 Citations
15,851 Views
11 Pages

Sustainable Cultural Heritage Planning and Management of Overtourism in Art Cities: Lessons from Atlas World Heritage

  • Giuseppe De Luca,
  • Ahmadreza Shirvani Dastgerdi,
  • Carlo Francini and
  • Giovanni Liberatore

11 May 2020

In recent years, there has been an increase in international tourist arrivals worldwide. In this respect, Art Cities are among the most favorable tourist destinations, as they exhibit masterpieces of art and architecture in a cultural environment. Ho...

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7 Citations
6,241 Views
22 Pages

30 January 2025

The growth of the tourism sector has led to overtourism in many destinations, which can negatively affect sections of the local population. This often results in a phenomenon known as tourismphobia, which describes the fact that residents develop res...

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21 Citations
11,491 Views
15 Pages

This paper explores digital reality replication for cultural consumption and green-digital open-system innovation, along with responsible, sustainable practices fashioned in a post-COVID-19 era. We address these after the dystopian effects of lockdow...

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15 Citations
5,688 Views
19 Pages

Tourism Investment Gaps in Poland

  • Patrycjusz Zarębski,
  • Grzegorz Kwiatkowski,
  • Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko and
  • Ove Oklevik

6 November 2019

Against a rapid and frequently unsustainable development of tourism in Poland, this article aims to recognize the investment attractiveness for tourism in Poland and its spatial diversity in the context of relieving the effects of overtourism. In the...

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