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overtourism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From over- + tourism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Excessive tourism.
   • ‘Athens cannot operate as a giant hotel’: mayor vows to rescue capital from overtourism [title] 2026 April 25, Helena Smith, “‘Athens cannot operate as a giant hotel’: mayor vows to rescue capital from overtourism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • As evidenced in the overtourism concept, residents may become resentful of the intrusions of visitors and visitors' impacts on their ways of living (Figure 9.2). Thus, it is essential that residents are involved and have a strong say […] 2018, Alastair M. Morrison, Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 94:
   • If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera. 2019 June 4, Annie Lowrey, “Too Many People Want to Travel”, in The Atlantic:
   • In Barcelona, the center of recent protests against overtourism in European cities, demonstrators carrying signs reading “Tourists go home” and “Tourism is stealing from us” marched down the city’s so-called Golden Mile, a street flanked by luxury boutiques and high-end hotels, spraying visitors with water outside a Louis Vuitton store. 2025 June 15, Gabe Castro-Root, Edu Bayer, “Anti-Tourism Protests in Italy, Portugal and Spain Draw Attention to Quality of Life Issues”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • After years in the making, Venice will on Thursday begin charging day trippers to enter the city in an effort to protect the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of over-tourism. 2024 April 24, Angela Giuffrida, “Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Translations (10)

pl overturyzm (excessive tourism) · it iperturismo (excessive tourism) · it sovraturismo (excessive tourism) · fr surtourisme (excessive tourism) · it overtourism (excessive tourism) · sv överturism (excessive tourism) · de Massentourismus (excessive tourism) · nl overtoerisme (excessive tourism) · el υπερτουρισμός (excessive tourism) · it superturismo (excessive tourism)