US EditionSummer Brings Overtourism Fears for 'Bavarian Caribbean'
Residents report a 20% increase in tourist bookings in early 2025, prompting proposals to limit tour group sizes and raise tourist taxes to protect Montmartre's character.
- Residents of Montmartre are sounding the alarm over overtourism, fearing their neighbourhood could become like Barcelona or Venice as Paris officials say 2025 will see a 20% rise in January bookings over last year.
- Narrow streets have become clogged with tour groups, and essential food shops are replaced by snack stands and souvenir stalls, local associations say the quarter is shifting because of tourism.
- Local housing figures show a 40-square-metre apartment near Place du Tertre now fetches around 500,000 euros, while Paris city government reduced short-term rental limits from 120 to 90 days to address pressure, officials say.
- Local groups proposed limiting tour groups to 25 people, banning loudspeakers, and raising the tourist tax, while Eric Lejoindre, mayor of the 18th arrondissement, warned rising housing prices could push residents out.
- For now the town will live with the crowds and the strain on local infrastructure, even as residents call for action against overtourism effects.
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In the summer thousands of tourists come, but the primary school in the village is tiny with a total of 32 children in four classes. Now the facility has a new head from North Rhine-Westphalia.
With its crystal clear waters, islets, dense fir forest and cloud-hungry peaks, the Bavarian Caribbean - as the tourist office nicknamed it - has seen its reputation grow rapidly in recent months on social networks.
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Summer brings overtourism fears for 'Bavarian Caribbean'
A picture-perfect Alpine mountain lake in Germany draws so many visitors every summer that the first thing they see is crowded busses, traffic jams and a packed-out carpark.
Eibsee, a Turkish lake in the German Alps known as the "Baviera Caribbean", became a tourist destination. Now, visitors need to be patient in congestion, bus or station. It's ten o'clock in the morning of the afternoon, and at Grainau train station, about 30 people are waiting for the bus to take them to the lake. The last one is already full and a group needs to wait for the next one.
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