{"id":135286,"date":"2024-11-11T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/its-changing-the-citys-face-locals-share-stories-on-how-overtourism-impacts-romes-culture\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:35:53","slug":"its-changing-the-citys-face-locals-share-stories-on-how-overtourism-impacts-romes-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/its-changing-the-citys-face-locals-share-stories-on-how-overtourism-impacts-romes-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s changing the city\u2019s face\u2019: Locals share stories on how overtourism impacts Rome\u2019s culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135286\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The residents of Italy\u2019s capital are feeling the heat with record-high visitors. Tourism in Italy has not only recuperated since the COVID-19 lockdown days: visitors are coming back in droves at unprecedented levels, particularly in the Italian capital of Rome. Last year, a record 35 million people flocked to the Eternal City. And, with the Catholic Church\u2019s Jubilee coming up next year, things are only going to get more intense.<\/p>\n<p>I first moved to Rome back in April 2021, in the midst of COVID-19, to pursue my PhD programme. Back then, the city felt like one of Italian director Federico Fellini\u2019s film sets. I recount visiting the much-beloved Trevi Fountain in broad daylight, which was so empty you could hear a pin drop. It was inevitable that things would have changed in due course. Yet little did I expect that, three years later, the situation would become so intolerable that Rome\u2019s local government would mull over charging visitors to see iconic landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>As the city plans to start ticketing people to visit Trevi Fountain, residents are wondering if things have gone too far &#8211; and if tourism has become more a burden on, rather than bulwark of, the city\u2019s life. \u201cOvertourism is a plague,\u201d Anthony Majanlahti, a Rome-based professor and one of the leading experts in the city\u2019s history, tells Euronews Travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal to charge a fee [\u20ac2] will make foot traffic in the area worse, not better. In fact, it\u2019s just a shameless cash grab. What about the actual city life that goes on in the piazza, the shops and bars there, the church of SS. Vincenzo ed Anastasio on the corner, the city\u2019s oldest pharmacy quietly looking onto the square?\u201d he ponders. Trevi Fountain is not the only part of the city to have felt tarnished by the \u2018reverse\u2019 Midas touch of overtourism. Locals claim that the overcrowded streets are becoming impossible to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>Overtourism and sustainability top agenda at World Travel Market in London<br \/>\n\u2018Ugly\u2019 pool for coins built next to Rome\u2019s Trevi Fountain as city undergoes massive facelift<br \/>\nOther common complaints include Airbnbs and holiday rentals driving rent through the roof, public transport turning into an unapproachable odyssey, and excess litter and cleanliness concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/11\/10\/its-changing-the-citys-face-locals-share-stories-on-how-overtourism-impacts-romes-culture\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/its-changing-the-citys-face-locals-share-stories-on-how-overtourism-impacts-romes-culture\/\">\u2018It\u2019s changing the city\u2019s face\u2019: Locals share stories on how overtourism impacts Rome\u2019s culture<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,1552,16837],"class_list":["post-135286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-italy","tag-overtourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}