{"id":5020,"date":"2017-08-13T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2017-08-14T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:58:59","slug":"tourism-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/tourism-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/tourism-backlash\/ephesus-turkey-951026-26-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5024\" src=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ephesus-Turkey-951026-26-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ephesus-Turkey-951026-26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ephesus-Turkey-951026-26-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ephesus-Turkey-951026-26.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Saturday 12<sup>th<\/sup> August the <em>Guardian<\/em> carried a full page article, \u2018Wish you weren\u2019t here: locals take on tourists in Europe\u2019s crowded hotspots\u2019.\u00a0 Spain is the focus for much of the spate of anti-tourist incidents reported, but it\u2019s not alone in seeing a backlash against apparently unregulated tourism, including the impact of innovations like Airbnb.\u00a0 The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) has responded by stressing the value of tourism and calls for \u2018sustainable tourism policies [and} practices\u2019 and a multi sector response.\u00a0 \u2018The focus should not be, it says, on simply stopping tourists arriving.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/tourism-backlash\/quai-du-louvre-paris-880406-26-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5025\" src=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Quai-du-Louvre-Paris-880406-26-2-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Quai-du-Louvre-Paris-880406-26-2-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Quai-du-Louvre-Paris-880406-26-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Quai-du-Louvre-Paris-880406-26-2-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Quai-du-Louvre-Paris-880406-26-2.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Three points.\u00a0 First, in 2010 I worked with the European Association of Historic Towns and Regions to prepare for the Council of Europe a set of \u2018Guidelines for Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Historic Towns and Cities\u2019.\u00a0 I\u2019ve yet to see any evidence that government at any level and public and private sector agencies have taken any notice of the Guidelines, much less taken any action.\u00a0 Second, regardless of what the WTO says, it <em>is<\/em> about the numbers and the impact on places <em>where visitor want to go<\/em>.\u00a0 Third, modern tourism is now shaped and driven by internet technology, yet the public agencies who are responsible for destinations seem unwilling or unable to use technology to help manage tourism effectively.\u00a0 Once again technology drives business, but not governance.<\/p>\n<p>Photos: 1. Ephesus, Turkey, 1995; 2. Quai du Louvre, Paris, 1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 12th August the Guardian carried a full page article, \u2018Wish you weren\u2019t here: locals take on tourists in Europe\u2019s crowded hotspots\u2019.\u00a0 Spain is the focus for much of the spate of anti-tourist incidents reported, but it\u2019s not alone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/tourism-backlash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SdXd-1iY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}