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[+] travel there by bike or public transport. picture alliance via Getty Images Overtourism is increasingly an issue but the question remains–how best to control it? Is it better to limit tourist numbers, introduce two-tier pricing where tourists are charged more, or is there an alternative solution, where tourists are instead encouraged to behave better through rewards? Bad Tourist Behavior Increases Calls To Cap Tourist Numbers Florence is a city overcrowded with tourists–1.5 million people visited the city between June and September in 2023.
That can be hard on a city of just 382,000 people, and when those tourists behave badly, people inevitably want a cap on tourist arrivals. Think of social media pictures, say, of a female tourist in Florence performing a lewd act on a statue of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and excess. There were cries that the city is becoming akin to Disneyland and that she should have been arrested.
In Japan, authorities in charge of Mount Fuji decided to implement a cap on climbers each day as a means of controlling tourist behavior and overcrowding–they report that many visitors arrive ill-prepared and underdressed, sometimes in sandals that cannot handle the mountainous terrain, starting fires, and they leave vast quantities of trash on the hillsides behind them. The prefecture hopes to r.
