A new index created by Australian travel company Intrepid has revealed the countries suffering from the most "overtourism", along with the nations with "undertourism" – Traveller reports.
According to them, the index compares total visitor arrivals in 2016 to the permanent population to create a "tourism density index".
This is especially interesting to us, since Croatia is the country with the most tourists per head of population, according to Intrepid's index.
-Croatia saw 57,587,000 tourists in 2016 and with their meagre population of 4,170,600, that measures 1380.78 per cent of the country's population – nearly 14 tourists to every local – Traveller writes.
They also touched the problem of tourism boom that has been causing damage in the some of the most popular tourism destinations, such as European hotspots such as Venice and Barcelona.
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These are the TOP 10 COUNTRIES FOR OVERTOURISM:
Croatia (57,587,000 tourists to 4,170,600 locals - 1380.78%)
Iceland (1,891,000 tourists to 334,250 locals - 565.74%)
Hungary (52,890,000 tourists to 9,817,960 locals - 538.71%)
Denmark (28,692,000 tourists to 5,731,120 locals - 500.64%)
France (202,930,000 tourists to 66,896,110 locals 303.35%)
Czech Republic (30,915,000 tourists to 10,561,630 locals - 292.71%)
Singapore (16,404,000 tourists to 5,607,280 locals - 292.55%)
Cyprus (3,286,000 tourists to 1,170,130 locals - 280.82%)
Greece (28,071,000 tourists to 10,746,740 locals - 261.20%)
Spain (115,561,000 people to 46,443,960 locals - 248.82%)