Many of Europe's most popular cities have recently become less polite to tourists. Barcelona residents have begun openly attacking tourists, while officials have begun to check out the owners of Airbnb homes. Venice has recently opened a special area for tourists because of the agony of its one-day tour owners. Dubrovnik set a limit on the number of cruise passengers entering the city.
Who knows what these popular tourist cities are going through, or so-called "travelers are sick." The data shows everything. Europe is the world's most popular tourist destination in 2016, with more than 1.2 billion international visitors. Spain, a country of just 46.5 million people, received 75.3 million visitors in 2016. Croatia, with a population of 4.2 million, receives three times the number of tourists in the country.
Australia is not a tourist, in 2016 we "only" 8.2 million people to visit Australia. But even so, Australia is likely to suffer from tourists as well.
What is a tourist's illness?
The awkward word is that the tourist city's hardware and software facilities are already overburdened with tourists. The most direct result is not only the tourist experience, but also the quality of life of the local residents. If you don't manage it, it's completely out of control.
This situation has become worse and worse in recent years. Local media published articles such as the Local minefield Guide, or coined new words such as "anti-tourism" or "tourist phobia." There have even been attacks on tourists at tourist attractions.
Why cause tourists to suffer from disease varies from place to place. Recently emerging resource-sharing mediators such as Airbnb have been accused of being the culprit. Cheap travel and a variety of packages can get more people out of their homes and take a look around, especially in Europe. Social media such as Myanmar, for example, was once a distant country for many people, but overnight it became a place of lifelong regret without going once.
Official travel agents focus only on the growth of the number of people is also one reason. Australia's 2020 tourism strategy, for example, is based only on growing numbers. The purpose of the strategy is very simple, as seen on their web pages-the slogan is to reach 115 billion days of consumption in 2020 (compared to 70 billion in 2009).
The Sustainable Tourism Programme was introduced only in the 1990s and early 20th century. And then there's nothing, and then there's nothing.
Has Australia reached the bottleneck?
Many Australian attractions, such as kangaroo island, have a hard time looking at Venice and Barcelona. But imperfect tourism policies can also lead to the ill-being of some tourists. Let the local residents feel that the quality of life has been affected.
The 2011 kangaroo professional water skiing and music festival was hugely boycott by the local community. A recent study found that the authorities' blind exploitation of tourism resources by government forced 5000 tourists into Vivian Bay, which has a population of just 400 local people. The event was a nightmare for the locals. As a result, the following year's activities had to end with strong opposition from the local community.
Even so, government is reluctant to abandon the development of local tourism resources and proposes to double the number of landings by 2020.
Tasmania, too, had such a small encounter. More than a thousand locals recently took part in parade's opposition to plans to build cable trams from Mount Wellington to nearby Hobart. Because the route will carry up to 1 million passengers a year, it will cause tourists to suffer from the disease.
Not to mention the Great Barrier Reef. Agriculture withered, climate change, sea urchins flooded to destroy coral groups, these even triggered the "passing by must not be missed, otherwise we have to wait 10,000 years" complex so that everyone has to come.
What do we have to do?
The brick family thinks government should do more work. Following Barcelona's regulation of Airbnb, Thailand's government decided to close Maya Beach on PP Island for four months a year, allowing marine animals to recuperate. Copenhagen, on the other hand, promotes the strategy of "we are all good kids". It probably means that both locals and tourists are part of this place. Everyone has the right and duty to share resources and protect them.
In New Zealand, the Tourism Board is actively promoting the wrong peak tourism. There is also the "de-tagging" strategy, nothing is missed will have to wait ten thousand years. Mallorca government is trying to divert attention from seeing them as places to go in the winter, as a way to reduce the number of people traveling during the peak season.
But instead, Australia's government's 2020 strategy looks at numbers and nothing else. Central local tourism authorities should consider sustainable development factors and the acceptance of local residents. This can maintain the number of tourists and the quality of their travel, and ensure that the lives of the local residents are not interfered with.