With Europe second only to Asia as the fastest growing regional tourist destination, cities across the continent are stepping up efforts to curb overcrowding and improve conditions for locals.
If 2018 was the year of overtourism, 2019 was the year destinations fought back. Or, rather, vowed to do so. So how will 2020 shape up?
From 2020, the private shuttle buses for cruise passengers from the port to the town will be replaced with regular public transport buses. Since they're smaller, there will be less a sense of hundreds of people mushrooming at the gates."It'll have an effect for the locals on [foot] traffic," says Franković.
The Netherlands government was already helping out its beleaguered capital -- it no longer promotes Amsterdam as a destination, focusing instead on smaller cities and towns. But this year, the city council took further steps to future-proof itself. From April 1 2020,entirely, and groups in the city center will be capped at 15.
It's known for its spectacular landscape: a prehistoric volcano turned by eruptions into a croissant-shaped island wrapped around the sparkling caldera, which is now filled in by the Aegean Sea. But its good looks have seen Instagram's favorite Greek island explode with popularity, drowning the pretty whitewashed towns in tourists and having cruise ships swamp the caldera.
On May 14 there are a paltry 2,639 - 2,793 people due to disembark, but the other dates checked are all between 9,000 and 11,000., which has worked alongside the donkey taxi unions to ensure better treatment for the animals, tells CNN: "As far as we are aware the code of practice was passed on to municipal authorities in Santorini and other islands."makes no mention of any weight limits. It did not respond when we asked what details were needed to make a booking.
Zuin says that the council has denied applications for two new fast food joints, and shut down 10 others that applied for permission to operate as a bar, and then opened selling fast food.The only exception to the hotel ban is for those which also offer a"public interest" -- for example a meeting room that could be used by the council. Zuin says there have been"very few" of these applications.
And 2020 will see the introduction of a"contributo di accesso" -- an"access contribution" for daytrippers paid on entry to the city. in December 2018, but the implementation has been continually delayed. Initially it was slated for May 2019, then September, then January 2020.Zuin says that the delays are due to a government decision that payment must be made to the transport companies taking visitors to Venice -- but the transport companies' refusal.
The system will also help the authorities monitor tourist flow and footfall for future use, he says. And the money from the fees will be ploughed back into the community, reducing citizens' taxes for things like trash collection and city maintenance -- areas which are affected by what Venetians call"hit and run" day-trippers.
Instead, the authorities hope that the septic tank requirement will be expensive enough to deter prospective renters. People planning to rent long-term will not have the same requirement.Carl Court/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images
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