Destination Stewardship Report – January-April 2025

Destination Monitor Selections

Booze Crackdown in Spain’s Balearics | Guardian Locals fed up with drunken bahavior: “Tourism, yes, but not this way!”

Celebrity Power: Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico Supports Sustainable Tourism | Washington Post

Jamica’s Sunken Port Royal Now on World Heritage List | Travel & Leisure

Morocco’s Gnaoua Music Festival Said to Lose Authenticity | TTW As tourism rises, founding African diaspora communities fade

Greenland Town Divided Over Cruise Ships | Guardian Ilulissat locals say they’re frozen out of cruise bounty

Too Much Success on Scotland’s 500 Drive | NY Times

Tourism on Peru’s Rainbow Mountain Sparked a Visionary’s Murder | Bloomburg

Patagonia’s Popular Perito Moreno Glacier No Longer Stable |Guardian

U.S. “Best Idea” Squeezed, Cowed, Endangered | NY Times Expert’s essay warns of national parks’ decline

Chamorro of Saipan Are Re-establishing Traditional Sailing Canoes | CBS News

Foundering Paradise – Panama’s Guna Yala | Afar

Cook Island Destination Stewardship Plan Stresses Cultural Integrity | Cook Island News

English Village Doomed by its Charm | Guardian Cotswolds overtourism peaks in Bibury