It is becoming more and more common for tourists to choose the streets of Copenhagen as their next holiday destination – and the capital is starting to show signs of wear and tear.
“Overtourism is not an objective category, it’s more that people experience it’s too much, it’s subjective,” explained Lars Fuglsang, Professor of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University.
“The risks of overtourism are that it’s difficult to get an apartment in the city because AirBnB take over the market and house prices increase. Tourists take up public space and noise increases, as well as garbage in the city, so there can be a lot of problems and I think the attention on this is growing also in Copenhagen,” he continued.
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