TY - GEN
T1 - European Union’s Role in Handling Overtourism (Case Study in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini)
AU - Azzahra, Najmah
AU - Nugrahani, Henny Saptatia Drajati
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The tourism industry in Europe is growing rapidly especially from 2017 to 2019. The increasing number of tourist arrivals has negative impacts on tourism, such as overtourism. The phenomenon occurs when there are too many visitors in certain tourism destinations and impacted the quality of life in the area. Overtourism has negative impacts such as environmental damage, damage to cultural sites, economic inequality, and damage to life quality of the local community. This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon that currently raising in European Union member states. The focus of this paper is EU’s role in handling overtourism that occurring in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini as the cities mentioned are located in EU’s member states. This research is a qualitative study, with case study of overtourism occuring in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini. The theme is analyzed using formal intergovernmental organization and compliance theories. It is found that European Union’s role in handling overtourism in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini is by applying their regulations in environmental, tourism, and sustainability fields to the mentioned countries because EU is a supranational intergovernmental institution and their member states have to comply every regulations made by EU.
AB - The tourism industry in Europe is growing rapidly especially from 2017 to 2019. The increasing number of tourist arrivals has negative impacts on tourism, such as overtourism. The phenomenon occurs when there are too many visitors in certain tourism destinations and impacted the quality of life in the area. Overtourism has negative impacts such as environmental damage, damage to cultural sites, economic inequality, and damage to life quality of the local community. This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon that currently raising in European Union member states. The focus of this paper is EU’s role in handling overtourism that occurring in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini as the cities mentioned are located in EU’s member states. This research is a qualitative study, with case study of overtourism occuring in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini. The theme is analyzed using formal intergovernmental organization and compliance theories. It is found that European Union’s role in handling overtourism in Venice, Barcelona, and Santorini is by applying their regulations in environmental, tourism, and sustainability fields to the mentioned countries because EU is a supranational intergovernmental institution and their member states have to comply every regulations made by EU.
KW - Compliance
KW - European Union
KW - Formal intergovernmental organization
KW - Overtoursim
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-8667-2_32
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-8667-2_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126245193
SN - 9789811686665
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 287
EP - 293
BT - Advances in Civil Engineering Materials - Selected Articles from the International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering ICACE 2021
A2 - Awang, Mokhtar
A2 - Ling, Lloyd
A2 - Emamian, Seyed Sattar
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 5th International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering, ICACE 2021
Y2 - 18 August 2021 through 18 August 2021
ER -