Bonus: The Global Story - Overtourism
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This is a bonus episode from The Global Story - Overtourism: Can travel hotspots cope with the crowds?
2024 is expected to be a record-breaking year for tourism, with more travellers going on holiday than ever before. But hotspots like Venice, Hawaii and Bali are also struggling from overtourism. Rajan Datar, host of the BBC's Travel Show, has been meeting people who live in some of the world's tourism hotspots and tells Lucy Hockings about the impact huge numbers of visitors are having on communities and the environment.
This episode was made by Alice Aylett Roberts, Richard Moran and Eleanor Sly. The technical producer was Johnny Hall. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC World Service. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you got this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie |
| 0:05.5 | Sanderson. I'm here to introduce you to our sibling podcast, The Global Story, |
| 0:09.8 | which brings you fresh takes and smart perspectives from the BBC's best journalists. |
| 0:15.4 | There's a new edition every weekday. Just search the global story wherever you get your |
| 0:19.6 | pods and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode. |
| 0:24.3 | So without further ado here's my colleague Lucy Hawkins. |
| 0:28.0 | 2024 is expected to be a record-breaking year for tourism, with more travelers going on |
| 0:36.4 | holiday than ever before. |
| 0:40.0 | Barcelona, Paris, Hawaii or Bali, they're all beautiful destinations that attract tourists |
| 0:45.4 | from all over the world, but they are so many violations of basic manners like jaywalking, dumping garbage, trespassing on people's property. |
| 1:06.7 | Too many visitors in one place can have a negative impact on those who live there and it's |
| 1:11.2 | also causing lasting environmental damage. |
| 1:14.8 | So today we're asking how does this relentless rise in global tourism impact the people who |
| 1:20.0 | actually live in these sought-after locations. |
| 1:26.0 | And with me today is seasoned BBC TV travel log presenter Rajan Data. |
| 1:31.0 | You have been traveling now, I think Rajan for 20 years or more, can I call |
| 1:35.3 | you a lifelong Roma? You could try calling me a lifelong Roma. I think I prefer to say because |
| 1:42.2 | Roma implies that I'm just drifting, whereas I think I'm going to say because Roma implies that I'm just drifting, whereas I think I'm doing it for work. |
| 1:45.8 | Well, I know I'm doing it for work mostly, with a certain structure schedule in mind, |
| 1:50.3 | looking at certain stories which will be pre-planned. so I would like to think not so much |
| 1:55.1 | aroma and drifter but a worker. A worker who travels. Was there a moment on a particular trip where you thought I'm becoming really concerned about over tourism? |
| 2:08.0 | This is an issue now. |
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