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How to Be a Tourist Without Being an Asshole, With Travel Journalist Sara Clemence

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

CHAPTER

Is There a Pandemic of Over Tourism?

In two thousand 18 there were one point four billion national trips. Flights got way cheaper, and in some ways, that's great. You don't have to be rich any more to travel. The internet has reduced so much of the friction. Social medias messe, social medins, messed everything up. One of the things it is additionally messed up is travel. Because em destinations get popular, they're pretty, they're photogenic. Influencers post photos about them, more people want to go there. So there are a lot of destinations around the world that have just seen such an influx of tourists that it's really been damaging.

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