Tourist alarm: These popular travel destinations are 2025 taboo!

Tourist alarm: These popular travel destinations are 2025 taboo!

Agrigent, Italien - an outcry from popular holiday areas: The renowned travel provider company Fodor has made its “no-list” public for 2025, which advises travelers better to avoid certain destinations. This list mainly includes places under the weight of mass tourism. While in Barcelona with water pistols against the flood of tourists is protested and in Mallorca the population with signs such as "one tourist = one neighbor less" draws attention to the problems, a worrying picture is emerging. The effects are not only noticeable, but are also shown in the increasing living costs in cities such as Lisbon, where many apartments are converted into holiday accommodations, such as merkur.de reported.

mass tourism meets popular travel destinations

The "no-list" lists five European and three Asian locations that are increasingly suffering from the pressure of the masses. The European Destinations include Venice, Barcelona and Mallorca. Bali and Koh Samui are also considered to be seriously affected regions in Asia. Bali is faced with enormous environmental problems, where 1.6 million tons of waste, including an alarming proportion of plastic, are produced annually. The waste disposal cannot keep up with this flood, which has serious consequences for the ecosystem, according to experts, as the . Koh Samui also fights with the consequences of unregulated tourism, where 200,000 tons of garbage are already stored at a landfill.