Two ropes are now expected to help in Dubrovnik. Cords to stands, as they are also found in the art museums. There, they serve the same purpose: the waves of the ever-oncoming crowds brakes and manageable currents draw. The ropes hanging in the Pile gate of the city wall, as well as all visitors to the Croatian port town of car-free centre get into the historical,. Signs regulate the pedestrian traffic: to the Right of the ropes out goes to the left again. Two million tourists crowd per year through this wall opening – approximately 2000 guests per old town residents.

Dubrovnik is overrun by three groups of visitors: from cruise passengers, culture enthusiasts and film tourists. Therefore, the Name of the city is mostly in Venice and Barcelona when it comes to the downside of the popularity, to many visitors, to over tourism. The list is bursting at the seams and places as a Whole or in specific quarters of the city transformation processes right up to the edge of self-destruction, is easy to extend: to San Gimignano, Carcassonne, Avignon, Cinque Terre, Florence, Palma de Mallorca, Amsterdam, Reykjavik or Berlin, for example.

A place in the cheap pilot costs about as much as a Pizza and a beer. So worth it over the year, several short city breaks evenly distributed. Frans van der Avert, CEO of the tourism advertising of Amsterdam, responds to the question, what is the best measure against over-tourism, only half in Fun: “don’t Build airports!” With ports, it behaves similarly. The number of passengers on cruise ships has increased in the last 20 years. And the Mediterranean sea is small, and all of the anchors in front of the same places.

300% more city breaks

The city tourism has been booming for years in Europe. The continent is, according to the tourism organization of the United Nations, UNWTO is the most frequented destination in the world. The number of city trips has quadrupled, according to the long-term study, the World Travel Monitor, in the last ten years. It is the fastest growing Segment of the international vacation market. And the global travel flows to emerging continuously in the future. Today, 1.3 billion people are on the road, soon one out of every five on the globe is traveling. Up to the year 2030, according to the forecast of UNWTO, is expected to increase the number of arrivals worldwide to 1.8 billion. Due to the growing prosperity is, in Europe, in South America and in Asia. The number of tourists increases, the number of destinations will remain about the same. The result is an even greater Overcrowding of already crowded places is inevitable. It is the social conflicts and the Museumization of cities threaten.

image not distance: If tourists are a plague

In Dubrovnik, only the entrance is reminiscent of the situation but also the historical center itself is a Museum: the Franciscan monastery, Onofrio’s fountain, the fortresses and churches, the Fans of the TV series “Game of Thrones” Scenes to identify – all in a tight space within the intact city walls, gathered and from the promenade of Stradun developed. Every few meters there is a gift shop, and most of the green shutters on the Windows are boarded up in the floors above the shops – a sign that their apartments are empty, that is to say as the holiday apartments are to be used. The Area within the city wall is only about 400 meters long and 300 meters wide. 10’000 visitors crowd on some days. The Unesco has calculated that the old contract of only 8000 people at the same time, and threatened to Dubrovnik already – like Venice – with the recognition of world heritage site status, it should overflow the tourism to continue to do so in an uncontrolled manner.

the Beautiful old town is to look at all. But it is not a Museum and not a movie set, people live here. About 1500, there are officially 800, according to a citizens ‘ initiative. The difference in Numbers is explained by the fact that many of the homes reported on the Locals, but the fact is, the semi-legal market of renting to vacationers fed.

In Venice, there was already a 2018 Block against visitors. Only inhabitants are allowed to happen.

Elsewhere, it makes no effort more, the change of the community in exhibition rooms with attached apartments to hide: “Our cities are not museums. And, as in museums, it is right to buy a ticket,” said the beginning of the year, the President of the Italian hotel Association, Bernabò Bocca. The occasion was the announcement of a fee for day-trippers in Venice, quite bluntly “entrance money”, which was approved by the Parliament in Rome, on Tuesday, the local Council was. The new regulation could be in may introduced. This year, the price of admission per Person will be three Euro. From next year, the amount should increase to six euros, depending on the tourist rush, it can be up to ten Euro raised. Visitors in the Hostels in the city, are exempt from the payment; you must now pay a local tax. Also other Italian cities, such as Florence, are now considering to charge an admission fee. The Balearic Islands and Amsterdam have already introduced at the beginning of the year charge for the crusaders and collect directly from the shipping companies, in Amsterdam.

That such fees can be used, shows the tax for sustainable tourism, Majorca-holiday for 2016 must be paid. With the millions of the “Ecotasa” were previously built wastewater treatment plants, for research projects funded or Fincas, and as nature conservation areas designated purchased before investors were able to strike. Also in Venice the entrance to get money, indirectly, to the inhabitants for the benefit of, and street cleaning. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, according to Venice from there for a year for around 30 million euros more than other municipalities for “normal towns”, as he called them – a burden that had become unbearable. Immediately relieving an entrance fee but only if it goes hand in hand with a quota of visitors. About how it plans to Dubrovnik for tour buses of day-trippers. The city intends to award from this year to Slots like at the airport, time and amount of limited right-of-way permits for a fee. In addition, the number of cruise ships is limited.

With a limited number of tickets Venice would be sold out on many days, and on the Grand Canal, a bouncer would say: today we are full. Hard to imagine? Since April of 2018, not more. There were built in Lock for the first Time in the history of Venice, in order to keep the crowd in the vicinity of the railway station of Santa Lucia and between St. mark’s square and the Rialto in the bridle and only Locals. Many of you have said in Interviews, they felt like visitors to a theme Park with Checkpoints.

door-to-door with other tourists

a lump sum solved from travel and cheap vans already in the seventies, discussions of ecological problems of traveling. The future researcher Robert Jungk argued in 1980, in an essay for the gentle holiday, and asked how many tourists can stand on a hectare of beach. His Answer: 600. But if the tourists would only be remained on the beach! Today, intermediaries bring Online private Apartments, such as Airbnb alleged individual vacationers in masses directly into the living quarters of the Locals, where they interfere with their daily lives. In Barcelona, meanwhile, occupies three-quarters of all properties in this way. The guests look for authentic experiences that celebrate, but only door-to-door with other tourists and displace the residents. The tourists leave, prices in the housing market are on the rise. Aunt-Emma-shops and other shops of daily needs disappear, souvenir shops, franchise chains and luxury boutiques. The money of the tourists go somewhere else, the negative consequences remain, garbage and exhaust fumes, the noise and the traffic chaos. Your city, the feeling of the townsfolk, no longer belongs to you.

The benefits of tourism to the population must outweigh the disadvantages, otherwise the hospitality is lost. Even the world Association of the cruise industry Clia States, “A Destination that is not good for your residents, can’t be good for your visitors.”

one size fits all solution for all cities, there is not, but a recognition so slow: Combined measures are best suited to the prosperity through tourism continue to flourish and increase at the same time, the quality of stays for visitors and Visited.

attractions

market The control of bed capacity, for example, via a strict licensing of apartments and freeze for Hotels. In addition, the equalization of flows, be it through Bus Slots such as in Dubrovnik or the Information the guest via the App on peak times and alternative attractions. Amsterdam, for example, the need to annually come up with 18 million tourists in a clear, marketed as clever as successfully in the coastal town of Zandvoort as the “Amsterdam Beach”.

The tourists can go to her behavior and means other than the Instagram-lemmings must shoot a Selfie, where there have already done tens of thousands of others in front of you.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 27.02.2019, 18:54 PM