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Corona-crisis: A Destination Management Opportunity.

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Jonathan Tourtellot
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If no good crisis should go to waste, DSC director Jonathan Tourtellot urges destinations to seize this one, forming stewardship councils that can oversee research and planning for the recovery. Plus a personal afterthought. Continue reading →

“Overtourism” Sizzles This Summer

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Jonathan Tourtellot
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The rising buzz in tourism circles about overtourism is now spilling into the mainstream media, especially in Europe, which seems to have the largest numbers of unhappy, tourism-battered residents. Here’s some of the latest information on overtourism. Continue reading →

Overtourism, Airbnb, and the Numbers Problem

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Jonathan Tourtellot
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Yet another voice in the overtourism discussion, this time from an Airbnb report with a Foreword by Destination Stewardship Center director Jonathan Tourtellot. Also, a re-post of his National Geographic Voices blog on the topic. Continue reading →

Controlling Overtourism Requires Destination Councils

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Jonathan Tourtellot
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At GSTC’s annual meeting, this year in Chile, hot topics included overtourism and the need for destination stewardship councils. Here, a set of recent news and comment on these topics. Continue reading →

What To Do About Overcrowded Destinations

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Salli Felton
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Salli Felton, CEO of The Travel Foundation in the U.K., shows how mass tourism can get out of hand. There’s a solution, she says: Measure success in terms of impacts, not arrivals. The tools for doing so already exist. But does the will to use them? Continue reading →

New Tsunami Hits Phuket: Mass Tourism

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Arild Molstad
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Facing congestion in Phuket, whether at the airport, on the roads or on beaches has long been a familiar phenomenon. What is different is that the congestion is mostly caused by the onslaught of mass tourism from Russia and China. Continue reading →

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