Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
One of the drivers of tourist congestion is the point-to-point nature of air-travel. In the past, travel used to be something for the elite, not only because it was expensive, but because it would take months of travel to actually reach many of the places. Your travel time would be spread over many intermediate places, all of which are now flown over by planes.<p>Whilst the volume of tourists is a problem, the behaviour of booking a week (or less!) off work to fly halfway across the world and back is of course going to concentrate tourists around "hot" destinations.<p>I predict that long, slow, possibly "eco" trips will become fashionable as a new way to signal wealth (much in the way that travel to far-flung corners of the Earth used to).