News Encyclopedia: How “over-tourism” is affecting cities

Graffiti in northern Spain

Source: AAP

The European summer holidays are in full swing – and protests against overtourism have begun (yet again) in a number of popular European cities. Overtourism is not a new problem. Winmas Yu explains in this episode of News Encyclopedia.


This story is sourced from SBS News and first appeared in The Conversation.


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