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Across Europe a backlash is building against the spiralling growth of tourism in some of the continent's most popular urban destinations. In Venice, Rome, Dubrovnik and Barcelona tensions are growing as local populations release their frustrations in growing protests as ramifications become increasingly severe and no clear answer seems to develop from local government.

With 30 million tourists descending on Barcelona each year, vastly outnumbered, 1.6 million residents are struggling to keep control of their city. Renowned for its' warm welcome, Barcelona wrestles with this complex issue and tries to find a suitable strategy to combat mass tourism and promote local culture. But with mobs working the city, intimidating locals from their homes to make way for tourist apartments, residents are growing increasingly frustrated, caught between a desire to receive tourists and a fierce determination to preserve their daily way of life.

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12 destinations travelers might want to avoid in 2018

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12 destinations travelers might want to avoid in 2018

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1. Isle of Skye, Scotland
2. Barcelona, Spain
3. Dubrovnik, Croatia
4. Venice, Italy
5. Santorini, Greece
6. Bhutan
7. Taj Mahal, India
8. Mount Everest, Nepal-side
9.Machu Picchu, Peru
10. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
11. Cinque Terre, Italy
12. Antarctica
(Minihane, J. 2018)

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"The offseason there barely exists anymore"

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"The offseason there barely exists anymore"

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- Phillip White

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“Humans want to protect pandas not for scientific reasons, or because they are ecologically important, but because they have cute faces and they are politically important.”

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“Humans want to protect pandas not for scientific reasons, or because they are ecologically important, but because they have cute faces and they are politically important.”

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Professor Wang Dajun, a wild-panda expert at Peking University

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"For China, pandas are the equivalent of the British royal family. You trot them around the world and they add an enormous amount to the country’s soft power"

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"For China, pandas are the equivalent of the British royal family. You trot them around the world and they add an enormous amount to the country’s soft power"

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Harvard professor Joseph Nye

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"Conservation camps, rehabilitation centres and open spaces are not ‘responsible alternatives’ to zoos, but are instead responsible partners."

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It is a simple fact that without zoos, many species would now be extinct.

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World market prices for raw materials have remained low, but logistics costs, which affect the industry’s profitability, have increased.

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In sustainable traveling one should remember that reaching the destination (and reaching it fast) is not the most important thing of all.

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The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation:

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The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation:

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The status of forest species and forested habitats is deteriorating.