Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

mytailorisrich wrote: post #3

There's no silver bullet. Tackling overtourism means limiting the number of tourists. One way to do that is to impose high enough prices.

And then only the wealthy may have holidays.

Re: Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

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Post by buyingarmor » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 1:19 PM UTC

Overtourist is a paradox

Once they will solve this problem, they will try to chaise it again

Re: Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

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Post by tomcooks » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 1:21 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #2

Minor correction, the guy's name is Børge Ousland, not Borge.

It's not minor, the implications of such mistakes are enormous (especially in the days of easy copy-pasting, semi-universal support for utf8 on the web, and plenty of ways to do research) on a cultural level.

Poor journalism and disdain for what's foreign, the ASCII way. Vae victis.

Re: Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

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Post by lotsofpulp » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 1:21 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #4

mytailorisrich wrote: post #3

There's no silver bullet. Tackling overtourism means limiting the number of tourists. One way to do that is to impose high enough prices.

And then only the wealthy may have holidays.

That's how it is now, from a global perspective.

Re: Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

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Post by tomcooks » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 1:22 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #4

mytailorisrich wrote: post #3

There's no silver bullet. Tackling overtourism means limiting the number of tourists. One way to do that is to impose high enough prices.

And then only the wealthy may have holidays.

This unfortunately pleases the state, the tourist service providers and the wealthy.

All three of them not being particularly known for their respect of culture, tradition and delicate (eco)systems.

Blah.

Re: Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

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Post by wellactually » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 1:23 PM UTC

mytailorisrich wrote: post #3

There's no silver bullet. Tackling overtourism means limiting the number of tourists. One way to do that is to impose high enough prices.

Another way would be to charge a modest lottery entrance fee and limit the number of winners to a sensible quota.

Re: Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

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Post by johnchristopher » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 1:24 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #4

mytailorisrich wrote: post #3

There's no silver bullet. Tackling overtourism means limiting the number of tourists. One way to do that is to impose high enough prices.

And then only the wealthy may have holidays.

Holidays doesn't mean "travelling to another country in a plane" or "let's take a credit to tour Italy".