Instead of giving visitors visa free access who hold strong passports, rather make them require a visa prior to entry (meaning they can’t just pack their bags and go, now having to pre-plan in advance and line up for getting a visa & paying money for it, they’re not alone since hundreds more are doing the same thing. There’s also the guarantee whether they’ll be eligible or get rejected on the spot).
It may cause strain on visa applications that’ll lead to mass rejections due to overload. If I were a country that’s suffering over tourism, just rescind visa free access for ALL nationalities (including those who have strong passports like US, UK, DE, FR, AU or CA to name a few) as in when they check visa requirements: it’ll be rewritten as “visa required” rather than “visa not required” prior to entry.
Or, they can apply for a tourist visa many times as they’d like but reject them. (Basically a real life travel “shadow ban” if that’s the right way to say it), leads to them giving up as they’ll know a visa will never be guaranteed regardless of numerous attempts. However, would this move alone reduce over tourism? Since you can’t just show up in someone else’s nation uninvited (illegal immigration).
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Assuming you’re talking about the USA, visas wont make much of a difference
Most people have given up on USA at least for now
It’s unlikely a discussipn about the US. I rarely hear about “over-toursm” related to the States.
This sentiment is strong in several European tourism hotspots, and I think in several SE Asian nations.
Visa free programms are not just a way to get in more tourists. They are often part of international treaties (which often contain way more things with bigger importance than overtourism) or bilateral agreements, which guarantee the same thing in the other country. If a country limits the entry of citizens from another country, that country probably will alao limit down its own visa free programm for citizens of the first country. The countries suffering from overtourism often don’t have the treaty freedom to so this or don’t want to limit their own citizens travels.
So Visa agreements are mostly part of international politics. Changing that does change a lot more than just tourism, which is often not worth it.
Tourism brings money into the host country. The people who care about over tourism aren’t the same people who control visas.
It does, but there are also problems where locals start getting priced out of stuff in their own country as businesses go for the higher profits of tourists. This generally makes a few business owners and maybe the tax man happy, but at the expense of many others.
Yup, I get it. I’m just saying the governing body that controls visas don’t give a shit that locals get priced out, or that a place lost its authentic charm.
Probably, but I’d just charge more. More people than Venice wants? Crank up the entry fee. Venice benefits and tourism decreases.
It curbs international tourism, which can help with over tourism. However, it happens at the national or EU level, which makes the impacts of the border restriction far more reaching than other policies.
It also doesn’t help if there is a large domestic tourism industry. An EU tourism visa could help filter out some American and British travelers, but you’d still have the Schengen Area tourists to deal with.
This depends on the location. Within the Schengen zone this would accomplish very little. For other countries it might work, but it would probably be easier to just charge some money for a visa on arrival. Extra costs will make some people stay away and it’s a lot less hassle for everyone involved. Also, tourist tax is a thing and could be used better in a lot of places.
The short answer to your question is yes.
Politicians don’t care for people in the country suffering. They care about the lobbies opinion and the rising BIP. Which both are happy with free travel. Touriat bring in the money (making the tourism lobby happy and the BIP gets a bumb, so they can say:" see I did bring in money. Ohhh the people living near tourism attractions can’t affort living anymore? Who cares. Don’t you see the money I brought to the coumtry?"
