It’s already hard to fathom, but one of the defining trends of the era immediately preceding the pandemic was overtourism, the growing influx of visitors to places like Iceland, Venice, and Tulum that, as Kyle Chayka wrote, is large enough to alter the quality of life for the people who actually live there. The phenomenon was epitomized by this anxiety-…
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