Travel and Tourism – Entrance Fees, Visitor Zones and Taxes: How Europe’s Biggest Cities are Tackling Overtourism

Travel and Tourism – Entrance Fees, Visitor Zones and Taxes: How Europe’s Biggest Cities are Tackling Overtourism

Overtourism tends to describe cities where local government and locals feel there are too many visitors, and that the quality of life has deteriorated unacceptably. Amsterdam has taken the lead last year with several initiatives and Venice is just about to introduce a tourist tax. This timely article provides us with an overview of how some European cities are tackling overtourism.

From Seville to Venice to Amsterdam, Europe is learning to improve locals’ lives by curbing tourists’ enthusiasm 

Originally built for the grand Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, Seville’s ­flamboyant neo-Moorish Plaza de España has for nearly a ­century been one of the city’s major ­attractions, an ornate ­showcase for Spanish architecture and ­decorative tiling.

But the several thousand visitors from around the world who throng the plaza every day, on foot or in horse-drawn carriages, may soon have to pay for the privilege, with proceeds from a planned entry fee going towards its upkeep.

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