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    Sustainable Travel

    Combatting Overtourism with Responsible Travel Solutions

    What is Overtourism? For as much as you see Frost’s famous phrase about taking “the road less traveled”, it sure seems like we all are on similar paths. Finding too many tourists in the same locations is a growing problem. So what really is overtourism, how big is the issue & how does it relate to responsible travel? The definition of overtourism is when “tourism has moved beyond the limits of acceptable change in a destination due to quantity of visitors, resulting in degradation of the environment and infrastructure, diminished travel experience, wear and tear on built heritage and/or negative impacts on residents.” ~ Center for Responsible Travel, CREST The…