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Tiny Tourism
What is Tiny Tourism? The ‘tiny’ tourist seeks, in the place they visit, the everyday normality – and even the banality – of the life that unfolds there… It may seem eccentric and paradoxical that there is a type of tourist who seeks, in the foreign places they visit, precisely that somewhat dreary normality which, when travelling, one usually tries to escape.
(Vice versa) the ordinary tourist, wherever they may have gone, will never be truly certain they were actually there, despite the countless photos and selfies taken to convince themselves otherwise.
The misadventures of a tour guide in the age of overtourism
A complaint by a tour guide originally from Rome and now living in Florence against the havoc wreaked by overtourism in both cities: 99.9 per cent of tourists come to take photos, feed their digital narcissism and post online to say ‘I was there, I saw it’.
Protests against mass tourism in Spain involve eating in the streets
This is happening in Mallorca, Valencia and Madrid, with the aim of reminding local authorities that there are residents here too.
The dinner is part of a series of initiatives that neighbourhood associations have been organising for some time to reclaim public spaces and enable local residents to get to know one another.
It is not the machine that must learn to be a hotelier
A statistic reported across the press: in July 2026, the number of incidents in which an artificial intelligence system slipped out of the control of its user reached a new high.
The question every hotel management team should be asking is not what the machine can do. It is: which skills do we want to continue to exercise, and who takes charge when automation is no longer enough?
Short-term rental: EU restrictions on rentals and sales
The economic and financial daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore reports that the draft ‘Affordable Housing Act’ regulation on housing, which the European Commission will present to the EU’s legislative bodies (from 9 September, Ed.), is now ready.
Areas experiencing housing stress have been identified, in which it will be possible to restrict short-term lets such as holiday rentals: the ratio of disposable income to house prices will be a key factor.
Destination Managers and DMOs: who really runs a tourist destination? An interview with Josep Ejarque
The Destination Manager has now become a common figure in Italian tourism projects. The term is used by local authorities, operators and regional organisations, sometimes even out of context, whilst public and private initiatives to set up DMOs (Destination Management Organisations) are on the rise, to the extent that it has become one of the most overused terms in official statements.
To explain and shed some light on who the Destination Manager is, what they do and what skills they need to manage a DMO, Domenico Palladino put a few questions to Josep Ejarque.
Anti-Parisian incidents in Brittany: “Complaints have been lodged,” says the mayor of a town in Finistère
The mayor of Plobannalec-Lesconil, in Finistère, said he was appalled on Friday 21 August on RMC after anti-Parisian and anti-tourist graffiti was discovered on cars in his town.
Is ‘Tiny Tourism’ the antidote to mass tourism? I went to Dublin to try it out
A new travel philosophy preaches skipping tourist sights and doing everyday things instead. But will it really be a trip to Dublin if I don’t visit Temple Bar? Or Trinity College? Or walking around its great grassy quads where giants of Irish literature like Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde once stood.
Visiting Dublin without seeing its key attractions feels like eating only side dishes in a restaurant: you are still hungry for the main course.
‘It’s getting congested on the ascents’: Mont Blanc grapples with overcrowding
Report — Mountains. The Tour du Mont-Blanc is seeing record numbers of visitors, with 75,000 hikers last summer. As a result, camping rules have been tightened and mayors are considering measures to protect the trails and wildlife.
Travel Notes – IT.A.CÀ Books – SLOW TRAVEL IN CALABRIA: DISCOVERING ASPROMONTE
Walking means learning to listen to a place, allowing yourself to be surprised by the people who live there, and recognising the value of what all too often goes unnoticed.
A rise in the Venice entry fee to 50 euros? Class discrimination
by ALBERTO MADRICARDO
The proposal to raise the Venice entry fee to fifty euros per person offers the wrong solution to a real problem.
A class-based proposal: the city is a delicate synthesis of diverse elements that are constantly evolving. Overtourism and climate change require social understanding for the governance of the territory: the ‘breath of the territory’.
A possible alternative: programmed number system and quality tourism.
Are the poles melting? Wealthy tourists are flocking there to cool off
Whilst France swelters in the heatwave, those who can afford it are joining the polar tourism boom. By contributing to global warming with these air cruises, they are destroying the landscapes they are observing.
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Achieving winning tourism
There are many ways to visit Venice to make tourism sustainable for the city!
‘Let’s achieve winning tourism: preserving the city and its people through fair rules and a self-determined industry towards a sustainable future.’
One must therefore go ‘from more and more to better and better’.
Not like Venice
Venice is becoming a non-city, a negative model. ‘Not like Venice’, it is now said in the other historic cities of the world.
From ‘always more’ to ‘always better’
It is necessary, of course, to impose regulatory limits from outside. But also from within, the tourism operators, joining together in a network identifiable on the market, can initiate a self-reform that, starting from the respect of the four compatibilities, promotes the transition to a ‘conscious travelling’.
The FOUR COMPATIBILITIES of conscious travelling
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