Overtourism

TTG Sustainability Festival returns in March – sign up to attend

TTG’s online festival helping travel agents boost their knowledge and confidence for selling more responsible travel is back!

What's driving ‘anti-tourist’ sentiment? And what can travel start doing about it?

In the first of a two-part series, Terraverde Sustainability’s Patrick Richards explores some of the root causes of the anti-tourism action seen in recent years – and in the second part, the potential solutions

Clia plays down mayor of Nice's threat to ban large cruise ships from French Riviera port

The mayor of Nice says he plans to ban larger cruise ships from the city as they only bring ’low-cost’ tourists that do not benefit the local economy

'Sorrento isn't what it used to be'; is overtourism ruining Italy's Amalfi Coast?

TTG’s Ilaria Grasso Macola headed to Sorrento to find out how tourism chiefs in the region and wider Amalfi Coast area are striking a delicate balancing act managing overtourism and combatting anti-visitor sentiment

Tui sees switch from Spain to North Africa as cost and capacity deter consumers

Tui has said some consumers are switching away from Spain to North Africa because of cost issues

Gran Canaria region introduces tourist tax after overtourism protests

Gran Canaria’s Mogan region has become the latest to levy a tourist accommodation tax, ring-fencing proceeds for improvements and sustainability

The rise of rail and 'coolcations', and why agents will have to 'work for it' in 2025

Reflections on a strong but challenging 2024, a disappointing Budget and demand for cooler climes were some of the debates waged in the final Agenda 2024 seminar hosted by TTG and PwC

Louise Haigh, tax hikes and the 'B' word – seven takeaways from Abta Travel Matters

Labour’s approach to travel, Brexit frustrations and the climate crisis were all top of the agenda at the latest Abta Travel Matters this week

'Travel and tourism gets a bad rep – it's time we fought back against the negatives'

’As an industry, we must challenge the current narratives around travel and tourism," writes Chris Crampton, chair of the Pata UK and Ireland, for TTG

Lisbon to hold referendum on the future of short-term rentals

The city’s government will put the issue to residents, with questions likely to revolve around whether properties intended for housing should be permitted to be used as short-term rentals

Time for action: how can the luxury travel sector become more sustainable?

With its higher carbon footprint per passenger, the luxury travel industry is finding alternative ways to provide a more sustainable product.

AI search, space travel and Christmas in Cyprus: nine unmissable Jet2 conference takeaways

Jet2holidays returned to Cyprus for its 10th VIP agent conference this week, bringing with them a grumpy time machine to take delegates on a journey through all things Jet2 past, present and future

Jet2 chief pins anti-tourist sentiment on 'unlicensed tourism'

Steve Heapy said demonstrations this summer in places like Majorca, the Canaries and Barcelona were a reaction to ’incompetent and impotent" politicians failing to regulate short-term rentals, not traditional package tourism

Positioning Majorca as a luxury destination has 'failed' – tourism chief

But Visit Palma managing director Pedro Homar is hopeful new technology solutions could help the popular Balearic Island reduce crowding

Treville Positano – why this is the best Amalfi Coast hotel for avoiding the crowds

Luxury resort Treville Positano invites guests to enjoy all the wonders of the Amalfi Coast away from the chaos of the popular tourist destination.

Tui ramps up Thailand winter sun offering with new ex-UK flights

Tui will add 6,000 extra seats this winter and a further 9,000 next year from Gatwick and Manchester airports

‘More to Japan than cherry blossoms’, tourist board insists in message to agents

Agents will be fundamental in positioning Japan as a year-round destination and to avoid overcrowding, Japan National Tourism Organisation boss Airi Motokura tells TTG at WTM London

Tenerife looking to attract ‘more affluent’ tourists in 2025

Tenerife Tourism Corporation chief executive, Dimple Melwani, said tourism numbers have increased from 2019 to 2023 but revealed the island is looking for ‘new visitors’

Sri Lanka tourism chief: ‘We're a safe, year-round destination’

Buddhika Herwawasam, chair of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, told TTG UK arrivals constituted 20% of all international visitors this year so far

Greece urges cruise lines to do more to tackle mass tourism

It comes as the country refocuses efforts to disperse tourists and encourage visitors to Greece throughout the year rather than in just the summer and the shoulder seasons

Majorcans ‘live off tourism’ argues tourism chief amid protests

Susanna Sciacovelli, director of the island’s tourism board, highlighted the confusion that can arise from using the word ’overtourism’ in media reports

Tourism minister pledges to amplify outbound sector's voice at government level

Speaking to TTG at WTM London, tourism minister Sir Chris Bryant pledged to invite more outbound industry members onto a key government committee, saying he wants to listen

Travel warned it is still failing to make headlines for the right reasons

Travel’s ’siloed’ approach to communicating its role as a force for good means its failures continue to make newspaper front pages while its success stories go uncovered, WTM London delegates heard

Costa Rica to up focus on tourist dispersal in bid to cut overtourism threat

The Central American country hopes to prevent any risk of the kind of overcrowding seen in parts of Europe by encouraging tourists to travel to the south