A friend in the travel industry made a very interesting observation to me about ‘overtourism’. He said look…

A friend in the travel industry made a very interesting observation to me about ‘overtourism’. He said look at images like this, and ask a basic, material question. Where are all these people staying? Accommodation has always been an integrated part of the travel industry. 1/3 https://t.co/Y6MvLMFnCw

And of course, the answer today is largely, in Airbnbs. His view is that overtourism is exploding now because the capacity to house this vast number of tourists has been provided by Airbnb-type processes. Previously available accommodation allowed a managing of impact. 2/3

It was more possible to integrate tourists with local infrastructure capacity, because the accommodation providers were key players in that local capacity. Not so with Airbnb. Just one more example of how get rich quick Silicon Valley types are fucking over societies. /end

(Pic from National Geographic.)