How mass tourism is destroying cities

Firenze, Italia. This jewel of a city in which I lived since I was born is nothing but a tourist trap. Life for us fiorentini and other Italians has become unbereable. If you want to sip a tea standing you are going to pay 3 Euro for some hot water (max 2 cups when you are lucky) and a regular supermarket tea bag. A shared room with two beds is 500 Euro a month per bed when an average salary is less than 1000 euro per month. Filthy rich house owners are evicting and throwing on the street old and handicapped people who paid rent for 25 years to AirB&B apartments. Food and services are way more inferior for what you pay, we pay triple for everything. Overtourism and greedy politicians destroyed this city selling it to dumb groups who don't even know where Firenze is on the world map. Stay home, please.

Destroy cities? Destroyed whole islands in Hawaii.

my heart cries for the Himalayas ...why nepal don't ban trekking to Himalayas ...millions of people pee and poop there and it dont even get decomposed

I know that migration is destroying countries.

There are lovely places in Ohio and West Virginia begging for people

Dam I'm late I just started to pay attention to how much this affects local people.

Be careful what you wish for! Stop foreigners buying property, and perhaps day visitors. But ban ALL tourists, those that are there for 7- 14 days, and many of the locals will be out of work, with no income. I'm afraid it is a no win situation!!

Stay home!

5 years later...everything is worse. At least people is taking to the street

Yes..its annoying

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This video was made 5 years ago..By now Venice has no longer 60.000 inhabitants (true real citizens or 'cittadini') but has sored to less then 50.000. And guess why: people moving away because they are tired of the herds of tourists and noise. They don't feel 'at home' anymore. Also: too many houses not being available anymore for housing, because they are put out for touristrental on bnb, or otherwise. A very lucrative business for the owner(s) off course..🤔😔
Having lived in Amsterdam for a long time, I have seen the sometimes devastating effect of mass tourism on the city.

toruist should fix up

I was moved by this video🎉

Don't add a comment until you have lived in a 'tourist town'. Otherwise you have no idea of what goes on, or what locals have to endure.
Also, don't impose your views on tourism on others without enduring the negative effects yourself.

enough with mass tourism, in Italy we are fed up with the mass of foreigners, who then most only create damage to the Italian artistic and cultural heritage, they come to Italy with caravans, campers, poor tourism, creating only so much confusion, traffic jams in the streets and overcrowding, only driving up prices. The complaints of many countries are right, such as Norway and Spain (islands of Majorca) where they are now exhausted from having an overcrowding of tourists, including, especially in Italy, most of them are German, Austrian, Dutch, English, French.. enough, in Italy we have the balls swollen .... an idea to counter this phenomenon of these wild and even rude holidaymakers, would be to introduce a tourist tax at the entrance of at least 1000 euros with prices dedicated only to non-resident tourists, higher prices than people residing in Italy, since this wild mass tourism only creates damage, therefore it must be removed from our territory. Puglia is right to charge 5 euros for a coffee, it's still not much, a coffee should cost 20 euros for all foreigners, so finally the wild foreigners go to Albania. The tourist tax of at least 1000 euros per person should be paid via a dedicated internet application before entering Italy, displaying the payment on their vehicle upon entry into Italy, so that the vehicles can be controlled by the police if settles with the payment of the entrance fee. those who are not in order with the payment must be immediately sent back, no entry into Italy for them. The same goes for campers, which have become too many and annoying by now, also given their boorish behavior, often turning car parks into real illegal campsites, with deck chairs, tables, grills positioned in car parks, in addition to the dirt they leave on the street . Also for these camper owners, there should be a high annual tax, even 5,000-10,000 euros per year, classifying the campers as luxury vehicles, also increasing the cost of insurance and stamp duties, so as to significantly reduce the number of campers in circulation and return in the early days when there were very few campers in circulation and people were more polite and respectful, and there should also be a law in which loans should not be provided for the purchase of campers. It is time for world governments to intervene very harshly to counter mass, overcrowded, peasant and rude tourism and drastically reduce the number of campers in circulation so that there are very few, already one who buys a camper with loans and debts cannot be considered a tourist which brings well-being, since buying with financial means not having money, therefore it means filling the camper with food from home, what kind of well-being can such a person bring to the country where he goes on holiday???? Nobody!!!! indeed it only creates confusion and overcrowding, as well as perhaps leaving dirt!!!!

Tourism is brutal because people want their experience at all cost.

Too much! Too many greedy selfish tourists, too many pollutants, too crowded humongous ugly ocean liners polluting cities like Venice in more ways than one! Over tourism is also contributing to Global warming/climate change as well! Think GREEN, think Globally and ACT locally! "If we destroy the environment we won't have a society'...per the late American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead in the early/mid 20th century! Tell me about it!! smdh

Welcome to the Nepal we have so many places to visit

tourism is harmful to the economy for local people, because stuff gets too expensive, but it is good for a small group of greedy people. So they sacrifice the people's well being to please the few rich.

Malaysia have same prob too. Now there are 5 milion illegal immigrants in Msia from all over the world esp Bangladesh Indon Viet India Nepal Myanmar China Thai Ctrl Asia etc

Mass tourism is Mass polution

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the 3 cities with so much history tourists are destroying the most in europe rn are
venice, italy
barcelona, spain
and dubrovnik, croatia

Too many humans on earth is the problem

SPAIN AND ITALY ALONG FRANCE AND ENGLAND DESTROYED ALL THE AMERICAS ESPECIALLY MEXICO, USA, and CANADA! Ancient history forever gone! Responsible for the largest genocide on Earth killing over 22 million humans populating North America for hundreds of thousands of yrs maybe millions most likely evolved from here. Responsible for the mass extinction of so much natural wild life, and places. Ransacked all natural resources, minerals, metals, etc. Killed culture beliefs ways of life forced European everything on them. Spanish French Portuguese and especially ENGLISH ALL foreign languages to the AMERICAS!! Spain lived 200 yrs as WEALTHIEST NATION ON EARTH THANKS TO THEIR stealing and ransacking Mexico alone! YOU PEOPLE HAVE ZERO SHAME! Will never stop your endless greed and selfishness. It’s disgusting!! Don’t blame tourists blame your evil ancestors for starting this globalization and yourselves for only demanding Change when it affects you people and your ancient motherland. All those who come to the AMERICAS claiming “Mexicans” are illegals because USA whites and blacks in govt told u so and gave u a paper. Have shame and respect. Learn the factual true North American history not the fake lies and half truths taught in USA education institutions and establishments. MEXICANS are indigenous Native North Americans who originated from CANADA USA and Northern Mexico. Who lives here thousand of yrs before whites ever stepped on the AMERICAS. MEXICANS were forced to claim themselves as Spaniards then as “Mexicans” because over half the USA was MEXICO before USA.. USA won because “MEXICAN AMERICANS indigenous native North Americans fought and won their battles and won the war against southern Mexicans and Spain. What happened is millions of USA whites invaded and USA govt instead of honoring the agreement bot the hands that fed them blackmailed and backstabbed the “Mex Americans”. They did this in the most savage evil demonic atrocities possible.. RESPECT OUR CULTURE OUR FOOD OUR BELIEFS AND CELEBRATIONS THE VERY FEW THAT ARE LEFT. “MEXICAN food” is the real North American food. So those who hate it dislike it by using it to mock and criticize in a hateful way, WHAT THE H ARE YOU ALL DOING HERE??! No hamburgers aren’t North American! Neither are people who origins are from other parts of world especially on other side of Earth! No matter how many times u are born here you will never be North American!! Disregard disrespect ransacking and destroying of this land only proves this. Those who USA made rich instantly betray this country by giving to other countries and their people and by moving to other countries never turning back to see the land which they destroyed! It’s gross!

Tourists are freaking npcs ngl

I find this video very offensive. I love being born darker skin tone. I love having darker skin tone

Tourists:

✅ Travel 1000+ miles by car or by plane, ✅ get stuck in traffic jams/miss flight/ connections caused by overuse...
✅ blame the locals/government for it
✅ Check into suit/room at a ressort (don't they exist in your home country too? Why travelling the miles?)
✅ Be super loud at the trains because who cares for the local workers who use the train ride as a a way to relax?
✅ Get up at 5am only to reserve 10 lies with 1 or 2 towels at a small swimming pool that you're going to use at 3 pm only.
✅ Mess up the buffet at the breakfast by putting more things on your plate than you can eat.
✅ Make tons of photos for your tiktok and instagram at overrated places.. so that everyone can see what douchebag you are.
✅ travel bag home and experience the same amount of stress as you came.

Instead of relaxed regenerated you feel tired, sick and frustrated and paid money for it.. Well done!

Yankees stay at home

You think them idiot's would act like that in Abu Dhabi or Dubai?? No

Wait, it's 2022, did they run out of water?

Ask for a lazy bag.

I'd like to see a detailed analysis on what exactly tourists do, for example, if they go to Barcelona for a week, how much time (on average) is spent, in say, La Sagrada Familia, and how much time is spent in restaurants.

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Unless it's an emergency or it's local, people shouldn't be traveling. The entitlement of human beings and lack of care about anything but their own narrow short sighted pleasures will end us and possibly most of life on Earth.

Bro sargon deez nuts

Ignorant tourists who damage ancient ruins and sites should be immediately fined thousands of dollars and banned from ever visiting the place again. There should also be guards constantly patrolling the area to make sure no damage has been done to the remains. The amount of tourists entering the place at a time should also be heavily restricted.

The hell? It’s not normal when the amount of tourists overtake the population of the people who belong to the country and live there!

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Africa will gladly take in all the tourists

Tax tourism

This aged horribly

This is why we can't have nice things.

this video is also called "be careful what you wish for"

I hate tourists, I laugh at news that tourists die while being stupid. I'm sorry, can't help it, there is nothing I hate more than airplanes, tourists, hotels and other such pathetic nature-destroying hobbies of pathetic humans that are bored and want to travel all the time. I hate you mosquito's.

I haven't been to Bali but I have been to Labuan Bajo, another tourist spot in Flores, Indonesia. 90% of the tourists were obnoxious, self-centered drunkards who had zero respect for the locals' hometown. These people see anywhere they go as their own personal resort.

Anywhere you go, YOU'RE A GUEST. Behave like one.

All things have both sides。