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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on May 29, 2019, 04:30:12 PM

Title: The age of overtourism
Post by: rcjordan on May 29, 2019, 04:30:12 PM
Article is meh, but the phrase struck a chord.

4 ways to be a good traveler in the age of overtourism | The Fresno Bee
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/article230939453.html


Venice, Amsterdam, Louvre, Mt Everest...
Title: Re: The age of overtourism
Post by: ergophobe on May 29, 2019, 07:14:34 PM
I'll be using that term a lot in the future.

The oddest part of that article, is that the Bee didn't even bother to make a light edit of the AP article and mention Yosemite, even though their offices are just down the street from the Fresno-Yosemite International Airport (a grandiose name if there ever was one).
Title: Re: The age of overtourism
Post by: rcjordan on May 29, 2019, 10:20:44 PM
>Bee

Well, there's this:

Yosemite has a big plan for 2019. It includes traffic fixes — and mountain lion poop.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/yosemite/article230774724.html#storylink=mainstage_lead
Title: Re: The age of overtourism
Post by: rcjordan on August 08, 2019, 06:28:03 PM
Venice bans large cruise ships from historic centre - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49276730
Title: Re: The age of overtourism
Post by: Mackin USA on August 08, 2019, 06:44:56 PM

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Title: Re: The age of overtourism
Post by: rcjordan on August 08, 2019, 07:57:27 PM
link still works for me

"Ships weighing more than 1,000 tonnes will be rerouted away from certain waterways from September.

The move follows an accident in June in which a ship collided with a dock, injuring five people."
Title: Re: The age of overtourism
Post by: ergophobe on August 15, 2019, 06:33:08 PM
Yosemite has a big plan for 2019. It includes traffic fixes — and mountain lion poop.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/yosemite/article230774724.html#storylink=mainstage_lead


Nice piece for the Conservancy, but so far, traffic has been pretty bad this year. Next year will be the big traffic study. The year after that will be rough - Glacier Point Road may close for the whole year, which will focus traffic in the Valley.