Exploring the Coming Perils of Overtourism

As Skift enters its fifth year, we are going wider with our coverage of the global travel industry and its effect on the world. The original promise of Skift — the first line in the first-ever business deck we created — was “Travel intersects with every sector in the world from local, national, state, and foreign policy to design, branding, marketing and more.” As part of that promise, we are starting a series of deep dives into destinations, as a mirror to the larger changes that are happening around the world due to the democratization of global travel over the last two decades. One of the biggest challenges we're exploring in t