{"id":209442,"date":"2025-06-24T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209442\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:23:10","slug":"how-tourists-are-crushing-hotspots-in-europe-worlds-most-visited-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209442\/","title":{"rendered":"How tourists are crushing hotspots in Europe, world\u2019s most visited region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suitcases rattle against cobblestones. Selfie-snappers jostle for the same shot. Ice cream shops are everywhere. Europe has been called the world\u2019s museum, but its record numbers of visitors have also made it ground zero for concerns about overtourism.<\/p>\n

In 2024, 747 million international travellers visited the continent, far outnumbering any other region in the world, according to the United Nations\u2019 World Tourism Barometer. Southern and western Europe welcomed more than 70 per cent of them.<\/p>\n

As the growing tide of travellers strains housing, water<\/a> and the most Instagrammable hotspots in the region, protests and measures to lessen the effects of overtourism have proliferated.Among the factors driving the record numbers are cheap flights, social media, the ease of travel planning using artificial intelligence<\/a>, and what UN tourism officials call a strong economic outlook for many rich countries that send tourists despite some geopolitical and economic tensions.\"AnAn activist holds a banner that reads \u201cstop cruises\u201d as part of a march to demand measures against mass tourism in Mallorca, Spain, on June 15, 2025. Photo: EPA-EFECitizens of countries such as the United States, Japan, China and the United Kingdom generate the most international trips, especially to popular destinations such as Barcelona in Spain and Venice<\/a> in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suitcases rattle against cobblestones. Selfie-snappers jostle for the same shot. Ice cream shops are everywhere. Europe has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[15484,65278,1151,34169,199,3045,1395,83783,2000,299,5187,83779,36,1450,50714,83782,2199,2122,19309,83781,2863,1411,7748,83780,104,83784,81773,83785,8949,15600,16,83777,978,22961,83778,20259],"class_list":{"0":"post-209442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airbnb","9":"tag-amalfi-coast","10":"tag-athens","11":"tag-balearic-islands","12":"tag-barcelona","13":"tag-canary-islands","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-cruise-tax","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-florence","20":"tag-france","21":"tag-greece","22":"tag-greek-islands","23":"tag-housing-shortage","24":"tag-italy","25":"tag-japan","26":"tag-mediterranean","27":"tag-mykonos","28":"tag-overtourism","29":"tag-paris","30":"tag-rome","31":"tag-santorini","32":"tag-spain","33":"tag-the-acropolic","34":"tag-the-louvre","35":"tag-tourist-levy","36":"tag-tourist-tax","37":"tag-uber","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-united-nations-world-tourism-barometer","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-venice","42":"tag-verona","43":"tag-water-shortage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114736438017802954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}