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The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, temporarily shut down today due to a spontaneous strike by the museum staff citing mass tourism. This comes one day after anti-tourist protests erupted across a dozen European cities.
People in some of Europe's biggest cities are protesting the surge of tourists from the U.S. and other countries. Workers at Frances' Louvre museum suddenly went on strike Monday, while in Spain, demonstrators rallied for a reduction in visitors and criticized skyrocketing housing prices.
Residents in Barcelona, Spain, and several other popular European destinations say tourism in their cities is driving up housing costs for locals.
Have you been planning your dream trip to Europe? Have you been spending your days picking and choosing what countries to visit and how to navigate them? Then you already know it’s not like traveling in one big country.
A new report has named one Canary Island destination the most tourist-dense island in all of Europe, and singled out one EU country in particular for overcrowding
Nestled between the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, this hidden European treasure is waiting to be discovered.
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Anti-tourism marches break out across Europe as locals claim holidaymakers are pricing them out - Activists called for a curb on mass tourism, with organisers telling demonstrators to bring water pist
The Mediterranean as a whole is warming up faster than the global average, while many cities and islands in Greece record numerous days each summer where the mercury tips over the 40C mark