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The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, temporarily shut down today due to a spontaneous strike by the museum staff citing mass tourism. This comes one day after anti-tourist protests erupted across a dozen European cities.
Residents in Barcelona, Spain, and several other popular European destinations say tourism in their cities is driving up housing costs for locals.
Have you been planning your dream trip to Europe? Have you been spending your days picking and choosing what countries to visit and how to navigate them? Then you already know it’s not like traveling in one big country.
A new report has named one Canary Island destination the most tourist-dense island in all of Europe, and singled out one EU country in particular for overcrowding
BRUSSELS — British and American tourists could pay higher fees to enter the EU under a plan to boost the bloc’s tax revenues. The EU is considering taxing foreign travelers to pay back part of the €350 billion common debt that was issued to finance its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021.
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Anti-tourism marches break out across Europe as locals claim holidaymakers are pricing them out - Activists called for a curb on mass tourism, with organisers telling demonstrators to bring water pist
The Mediterranean as a whole is warming up faster than the global average, while many cities and islands in Greece record numerous days each summer where the mercury tips over the 40C mark
Every year, a new wave of vacationers flocks to Europe with enough luggage to start a new life overseas, only to be humbled by old-world infrastructure. Katie Parla, an author and tour guide who lives in Rome, watches the scene play out “every single day” in the country’s most popular tourist destinations.