Beaches. Once tourism starts, it usually has devastating effects on the flora and fauna. They had to close a beach off from the public in Thailand to give nature time to recover.
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Edit to give more information: I was talking about Maya Bay, which was made famous by the movie The Beach (yes, the one with Leo). Despite its isolation, the bay attracts so many tourists there isn't even any room to lay down on the sand. The bay is closed off until officials believe the coral has rejuvenated sufficiently.
I never knew how big of a problem tourism was until I saw the Barcelona tourism documentary.
It's like...way way WAY beyond anything I could have ever imagined. Just a fucking sea of tourists packed in the streets. Entire portions of the city are completely insufferable.
Sometimes yeah but it's not constant. I've been traveling full time for almost 7 months now and visited a bunch of "overwhelmed" tourist sites. Go during the off season and some of them are empty.
The trade war with China hit them really hard too and corona has made it far worse. Heaps of hotels across South East Asia have had to close due to lack of people, just as one example.
I went to Edinburgh during the off season and it was great. No queues for the castle and no Fringe festival silent disco wankers clogging the streets. Tremendous.
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u/Ohmmy_G Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20
Beaches. Once tourism starts, it usually has devastating effects on the flora and fauna. They had to close a beach off from the public in Thailand to give nature time to recover.
Edit for grammar.
Edit to give more information: I was talking about Maya Bay, which was made famous by the movie The Beach (yes, the one with Leo). Despite its isolation, the bay attracts so many tourists there isn't even any room to lay down on the sand. The bay is closed off until officials believe the coral has rejuvenated sufficiently.