Overtourism case study:  we must redefine tourism
Channel: Juan Carlos Rodarte
Date: 2019-05-10

Most likely it is not necessary to further explain how mass tourism annihilates the experience of visiting a destination, a new culture or just enjoying your next vacation. But in case there is any skeptical thinking about the damage that can be caused by the concentration of people in one place I will leave an example that really gives the expedition team chills:
 
Barcelona is an international tourist attraction that at some given time enjoyed a pleasant climate that gave peace to all those who walked through its streets.I Its splendor left every tourist who visited the Spanish city speechless. Its cultural, architectural and historical attractions are simply spectacular, including the Basilic of the Sacred Family. However, time passed and in 2017 this city collected _ € 28,017,753 just in the collection of the tax on stays in tourist establishments_ according to the Observatory of Tourism in Barcelona (OTB).

What's wrong with that? These figures sound good enough for a political report of results, the question is: What is the cost of such large figures? Regrettably 6 of every 10 inhabitants of Barcelona to 2017 report that the city is at the limit of receiving more tourists (OTB, 2017) This type of state of mind has to do with the fact that tourists are welcomed with arms wide open, an example of this is the water issue: while the average water consumption is 127 liters per person per day in Spain, the average consumption of a tourist who visits this country ranges from 450 to 800 liters per day, according to El Diario and the journalist José Luis Gallego who explains the urgency of paying extreme attention to this issue, making it clear in the title of his note "We do not have water for so much tourist." (https://www.eldiario.es/zonacritica/agua-turista_6_554754536 .html)

And it is that the numbers become chilling in the water issue if you multiply the liters spent by the 12,924,561 tourists registered during 2017 in hotels, pensions, hostels, camping areas and local touristic activities that visited Barcelona. This is more than 5 billion liters of water, something like filling up 2,326 Olympic swimming pools during 2017.
 
How to make this not happen with the Balkans? In the Balkans! In this jewel of nature where, fortunately, peace reigns, why should it happen? If we think of only one country in this peninsula: Crna Gora (the country’s denomination in its  original  language);  we can notice how the economic income, in what refers to tourism, went from 86 million euros to 480 million euros in the period of 2001 to 2007.