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Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future

Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future

Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future
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Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future

Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future

Overview

Before COVID-19 hit, the biggest problem in the world of travel was overtourism. Crowds threatened to spoil natural environments and make daily life unbearable for residents of popular travel destinations. Then, seemingly overnight, tourism nearly ceased. Yet there is no question that travel will resume; the only question is, when it does, what will it look like? Will we return to a world of overrun monuments, littered beaches, and gridlocked city streets? Or can we do things differently this time?

Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future charts a path toward tourism that is truly sustainable, focusing on the triple bottom line of people, planet, and prosperity. Bringing together tourism officials, city council members, travel journalists, consultants, scholars, and trade association members, this practical book explores overcrowding from a variety of perspectives. After examining the causes and effects of overtourism, it turns to management approaches in five distinct types of tourism destinations:

1. historic cities;
2. national parks and protected areas;
3. World Heritage Sites;
4. beaches and coastal communities; and
5. destinations governed by regional and national authorities. 

While each location presents its own challenges, common mitigation strategies are emerging. Visitor education, traffic planning, and redirection to lesser-known sites are among the measures that can protect the economic benefit of tourism without overwhelming local communities.

As tourism revives around the world, these innovations will guide government agencies, parks officials, site managers, civic groups, environmental NGOs, tourism operators, and others with a stake in protecting our most iconic places. 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781642830767
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 05/27/2021
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Martha Honey is the Co-Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST). Martha led CREST as the Executive Director for 16 years before transitioning to her project-based role of Director Emeritus in 2019. Over the last two decades, Martha has written and lectured widely on ecotourism, impact tourism, cruise and resort tourism, coastal and marine tourism, climate change, and certification issues. Her books include Coastal Tourism, Sustainability, and Climate Change in the Caribbean, Vol. 1 & 2, and Marine Tourism, Climate Change, and Resilience in the Caribbean, Vol. 1 & 2 (Business Expert Press, 2017), Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? (Island Press, 1999 and 2008), and Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice (Island Press, 2002). She is the Executive Producer of CREST’s film, Caribbean ‘Green’ Travel: Your Choices Make a Difference, released in May 2016. Most recently, she has been an editor and author of a new study on cruise tourism, published in Spanish as Por el Mar de las Antillas: 50 Años de Turismo de Cruceros en el Caribe and in English as Cruise Tourism in the Caribbean: Selling Sunshine. Previously, Martha worked for 20 years as a journalist based in East Africa and Central America. She holds a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword Elizabeth Becker ix

Chapter 1 A Growing Problem Arnie Weissmann 1

Chapter 2 Historic Cities

Chapter 2.1 Europe's Historic Cities Francesca Street 16

Chapter 2.2 Barcelona, Spain Albert Arias-Sans Aina Pedret Natalia Sánchez Castro 40

Chapter 2.3 Charleston, South Carolina Dan Riccio 52

Chapter 2.4 Edinburgh, Scotland Aileen Lamb 63

Chapter 3 National Parks and Protected Areas

Chapter 3.1 US National Parks: The Unfatigued Allure of Wild Places: Richard Bangs with Martha Honey 73

Chapter 3.2 Brazil's National Parks James R. Barborak Juarez Michelotti Thiago do Val Beraldo-Souza Paulo Eduardo Pereira-Faria 95

Chapter 3.3 Banff National Park, Canada Kaitie Worobec 107

Chapter 3.4 Serengeti National Park, Tanzania David Blanton 116

Chapter 4 World Heritage Sites

Chapter 4.1 Overtourism at World Heritage Sites Martha Honey 131

Chapter 4.2 Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail, Peru Louise Norton 156

Chapter 4.3 Luang Prabang, Laos Robyn Bushell 168

Chapter 4.4 Mount Everest Birendra KC Kelsey Frenkiel 181

Chapter 5 Beaches and Coastal Communities

Chapter 5.1 Beaches and Coastlines Andrea Sachs Martha Honey 195

Chapter 5.2 The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Carter A. Hunt 215

Chapter 5.3 Big Sur, California Roberta Atzori Laura Kasa 227

Chapter 5.4 Hawai'i Frank Haas 239

Chapter 6 Destination Governance

Chapter 6.1 Overtourism and Destination Governance Jonathan B. Tourtellot 249

Chapter 6.2 Iceland Nathan Reigner María Reynisdóttir 273

Chapter 6.3 Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada Julie Regan 283

Chapter 6.4 Colorado: Cathy Ritter 292

Chapter 6.5 New Zealand Andrea Insch 300

Chapter 6.6 Trolltunga, Norway Christina Beckmann Kaitie Worobec 313

Chapter 7 From Overtourism to No Tourism: Finding a New Normal Martha Honey 322

Contributors 357

About CREST 369

Acknowledgments 371

Index 375

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