Full list of iconic travel destinations at risk of destruction from tourism

We each person our question bucket lists, but determination are an expanding number of locations suffering astatine the hands of overtourism – oregon where, to beryllium frank, locals simply don’t want you visiting.

Now, a database has revealed the trips you’ll privation to avoid taking successful 2025 – and 1 famed UK spot spanning 516 miles of coastline has received a mention.

The North Coast 500 roadworthy travel covers bluish Scotland, and was coined successful 2015 by the section Tourism Project Board.

It ticks disconnected an array of stunning quality spots on the way, including Applecross, Ullapool, Sandwood Bay and Durness Beach, and was visited by a whopping 29,000 radical successful its archetypal year.

However, astir 10 years connected and section communities are becoming progressively agitated with the overtourism that this picturesque way has brought to the area, from the rubbish roadworthy trippers are leaving to the congestion piling up connected the roads.

What are the issues with the North Coast 500?

It mightiness transverse immoderate beauteous locations and bring economical benefits to section communities, but not everyone is blessed with the mode the North Coast 500 has panned out, arsenic Fodor’s No List 2025 underlines.

And portion Reddit is afloat of threads asking for proposal and suggestions for the North Coast 500, it’s besides got its just stock of disapproval from locals.

There’s adjacent a Facebook radical entitled NC500 The Dirty Truth dedicated to sharing the world of the coastal way – including grievances astir emotion locks on bridges and rubbish piling precocious amid already-full bins.

‘It’s not tourists successful campervans I hate, it’s the radical who usage the roadside passing places arsenic parking spaces and permission their litter lying around,’ @Next_Reflection4664 penned, adding that they’d adjacent seen radical ‘emptying their chemic toilets’ into the lochs.

As galore person noted, the way boomed successful popularity during the contiguous post-lockdown periods, earlier galore different countries opened their borders to tourists. As such, British radical looked for much section options – and arsenic @Alah2 reflects, ‘every camping spot [and] each quality spot was full.’

‘What wasn’t good was radical who didn’t instrumentality attraction of the places they stopped at. People were going to the toilet connected the broadside of the road, [and] contempt bins being afloat radical near bin bags adjacent to them alternatively than uncovering another, which were past torn isolated by animals,’ they added.

‘You perceive that a batch successful Skye. Some centrifugal homes are truthful wide that they are somewhat disconnected the single-track roads connected some sides. With the numbers of them, they bash harm the roads arsenic good arsenic causing postulation jams and parking successful passing places,’ @squirrelfoot wrote.

What other has been included connected Fodor’s No List 2025?

The North Coast 500 isn’t the lone destination that, arsenic Fodor puts it, is experiencing ‘unsustainable pressures connected the onshore and section communities.’

Bali, Indonesia

Bali successful Indonesia has besides topped the list, receiving 5,273,258 planetary visitors successful 2023 – a whopping summation of 144% from 2022’s figures.

In fact, the destination is struggling with overtourism to specified an grade that authorities are present overseeing the improvement of the Benoa Bay artificial islands, comprised of 12 isles that are acceptable to big a play course, taxable park, aggregate luxury resorts and adjacent a Formula 1 racecourse.

‘European destinations wherever locals don’t privation you’

Also mentioned connected the database are immoderate and each European destinations wherever locals ‘don’t privation you,’ including Barcelona, Mallorca and the Canary Islands.

In July, protestors took to the streets of the Catalonian superior with h2o guns arsenic a objection against wide tourism. Thousands squirted diners successful fashionable areas with h2o pistols paired with chants of ‘go home.’

Likewise, residents person go progressively disillusioned with the deficiency of affordable lodging options, resulting successful the politician of Barcelona pledging to destruct short-term tourer lettings wrong 5 years.

Mount Everest

And, of course, Mount Everest was besides mentioned. While Everest-related tourism undoubtedly generates millions for Nepal’s economy, determination are expanding concerns astir the interaction connected the situation connected relationship of excessive littering and microplastic pollution.

The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee was founded successful 1991 to support the portion cleanable done controlled discarded collections, but section initiatives similar these are progressively incapable to header with the immense numbers of mountaineers that sojourn the world’s tallest mountain.

Though lone astir 800 radical marque an effort astatine summitting Mount Everest each year, the Sagarmatha National Park receives astir 100,000 radical each year, portion the Everest Base Camp is visited by 500 radical each day.

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