Travel has become far easier and cheaper over the thirty years. Low- airlines small cities to one another, and photographs shared online can make a narrow street within days. At the same time, ships have grown so large that a single vessel may bring several thousand passengers into a port in one morning. In some cities, the number of visitors each year is now many times the number of people who live there. Barcelona, for , receives more than thirty visitors for every .
Several places have responded with rules. Venice, in Italy, began charging day visitors a fee to enter the old city on the busiest days of the year, and it also limited the size of the ships allowed into its main waterway. Dubrovnik, in Croatia, reduced the number of ships that may stop there on the same day. In Amsterdam, the city stopped new hotels from being built in the center and raised the tax paid by tourists.
Other cities have chosen gentler methods. Rather than turning visitors away, they try to move them. Some sell tickets for sites at fixed times so that crowds are through the day. Others neighborhoods and towns outside the center, or the quiet months instead of the summer. Officials in one Spanish city stopped paying for advertisements aimed at attracting more people , and spent the money on cleaning and repairing streets instead. A few towns have even asked websites to directions to fragile sites.
These measures are not welcomed by everyone. Shops, hotels, and restaurants that fewer visitors will mean fewer jobs, and in many cities provides a large of local . Some travelers that an entrance fee makes a city open to the rich and closed to students and families. Residents, on the other , often say that they can no longer buy bread near their homes, because the shops have been replaced by stores selling souvenirs. City governments are caught between these views, and the rules they choose often change after an election.
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One reason the number of visitors has risen is that
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What did the city of Amsterdam do?
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What did officials in one Spanish city decide to do?
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Some travelers are against entrance fees because they believe that
