OVERTOURISM AND TOURISMPHOBIA: EVOLUTION OF HOST AND TOURISM RELATIONSHIP

Overtourism describes destinations where locals or visitors, feel that there are too many visitors and that the quality of life in the area or the quality of the experience has deteriorated unacceptably. Overtourism, is related to a variety of well-established causes, such as increased congestion and privatization of public spaces, explosive growth of cruise tourism, the rapid growth in numbers of seasonal and day visitors, the rise in tourism induced real estate speculation and the associated decline in purchasing power parity of local residents vs. visitors, the dismantling of socio-cultural connectivity. As a result of these reasons, those who live in popular tourist destinations are against to growing an unlimited tourist attraction. As a result, there are negative attitudes towards tourism and tourists in some of the most preferred destinations, especially in Venice and Barcelona, which do not manage to sustain tourism growth in a sustainable way. It is necessary to establish policies and actions that can manage this situation without stopping the growth of tourism as an important employment generating and income generating sector in the world. In this way, it will be possible to manage potential destinations that are affected by over tourism, as well as managing destinations affected by over tourism. Therefore the main purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of the effects of overtourism and overtourism in the conceptual framework. In addition, proposals to manage the effects of overtourism were presented at the end of the research