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Special Issue "Overtourism, Challenges and Constraints for Tourism Destinations"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2019
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Dear Colleagues,
Tourism destinations globally face new challenges. The most evident relate to changing patterns of demand, more affordable transport options to/from tourism destinations particularly due to the low cost carrier revolution, a more affluent middle-class particularly in BRIC emerging markets, leading to overcrowded resort areas and city tourism resulting in some negative consequences to the host community and, above all, a devaluation of the tourism experience.
This phenomenon, generally referred to as “overtourism”, is raising its ugly head in many tourism destinations that inevitably suffer negative environmental but also other impacts resulting in a decrease in residents’s quality of life, higher prices of goods and some tourism services, increased property prices and rentals, overloaded infrastructures and even threats to cultural and heritage areas. The summation of all these negative factors and more result in a depreciation of the destination brand image. Strategic and tactical measures already exist that can control or mitigate the growth of the negative consequences of ‘overtourism’. As an example, demarketing strategies can be adopted that attempt to discourage potential visitors from going to an over-crowded destination area or attempt to reduce visitor numbers in total or selectively and redistributing demand spatially and/or seasonally.
For this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute with literature reviews, case studies and other information that stimulates a discussion on the main challenges and constraints of overtourism and share experiences (positive or negative) from different destinations so that new knowledge is created on this important phenomenon that overshadows all other current issues in tourism.
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