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OVERTOURISM

When locals in the charming Austrian lakeside village of Hallstatt staged a blockade of the main access tunnel, brandishing placards asking visitors to ‘think of the children’, it highlighted what can happen when places start to feel overrun by tourists. Hallstatt has just 800 residents, but has experienced visitor numbers as high as 10,000 a day. And it’s just one of a growing number of places where residents

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