Hotter Summers and Overcrowding Threaten Europe’s Tourist Economies

Hotter Summers and Overcrowding Threaten Europe's Tourist Economies

(Bloomberg) — The Montesol is Ibiza’s oldest hotel. Built in 1933, it’s a neoclassical monolith on a leafy boulevard between the port and the old town of the Spanish island’s capital city. For the last three-quarters of a century, the hotel has hosted generations of Hollywood elite and giants of the music business, while outside Ibiza was transformed from a laid-back haven for 1950s beatniks and bohemians into a Fantasia of mega-clubs, neon ligh…

Hotter Summers and Overcrowding Threaten Europe’s Tourist Economies

Overtourism and climate change have created a dangerous feedback loop that endangers Southern Europe’s tourism industry