Overtourism: A Potential Outcome in Contemporary Tourism—Concepts, Indicators, and Impacts

Overtourism is increasingly an issue with popular destinations. The heavy volume of visitors across multiple seasons and the resentment of residents to tourism development and visitor volumes are two key concepts of overtourism. This chapter provides a thorough review of definitions and theoretical frameworks associated with overtourism and provides a toolkit of indicators and measurement of those indicators to gauge size of tourism economy, employment, tourism visitation, development levels, media reach, and stakeholder’s perspectives. Overtourism is known for when tourism exceeds social and environmental capacities of a community.