{"id":11627,"date":"2024-03-14T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:01:46","slug":"hello-world-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/hello-world-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel and Tourism &#8211; Entrance Fees, Visitor Zones and Taxes: How Europe\u2019s Biggest Cities are Tackling Overtourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11627\" class=\"elementor elementor-11627\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1454c203 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1454c203\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3ec186cd\" data-id=\"3ec186cd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44d4a18a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44d4a18a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 13-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-1yi1cnj\" data-gu-name=\"standfirst\">\n<div class=\" dcr-1qp23oo\">\n<p><b>From Seville to Venice to Amsterdam, Europe is learning to improve locals\u2019 lives by curbing tourists\u2019 enthusiasm<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-ch7w1w\" data-gu-name=\"body\">\n<div class=\"dcr-v4ay52\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-lw02qf\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-1g5o3j6\">\n<p class=\"dcr-170x4j1\"><span class=\"dcr-1ipjagz\">O<\/span>riginally built for the grand Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, Seville\u2019s \u00adflamboyant neo-Moorish Plaza de Espa\u00f1a has for nearly a\u00a0\u00adcentury been one of the city\u2019s major \u00adattractions, an ornate \u00adshowcase for\u00a0Spanish architecture and \u00addecorative tiling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-170x4j1\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:buttons --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<p><!-- wp:button {\"backgroundColor\":\"luminous-vivid-amber\",\"width\":25,\"style\":{\"border\":{\"radius\":\"9px\"}},\"fontSize\":\"small\"} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25 has-custom-font-size has-small-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" style=\"border-radius: 9px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2024\/mar\/03\/entrance-fees-visitor-zones-and-taxes-how-europes-biggest-cities-are-tackling-overtourism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:button --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:buttons --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/hello-world-2-2-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorised"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11826,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions\/11826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omegaworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}