Article: "Overtourism Is Out of Control. Here Are the New Rules of Tourism"

[Professor]

A great article. It shares other hot spots residents' experiences, solutions.

One of 2024’s Travel Trends Is Tourist Shaming. Here’s How to Avoid It.

Post-pandemic travel is surging, and overtourism is pushing popular places to their limits. How can you be a good traveler when some locals just want you to go home?

www.outsideonline.com

 

[Matt J]

It's the typical cycle though; people come here on vacation, fall in love, move here, realize what reality is living here and begin complaining about how crowded it is, people shouldn't come here, over built, etc.

 

[Poppaj]

It's the typical cycle though; people come here on vacation, fall in love, move here, realize what reality is living here and begin complaining about how crowded it is, people shouldn't come here, over built, etc.

I love talking to people from all different places and learning about their hometowns and what made them decide to come here, but after seventeen years here the thing that still amazes me is how a minority of visitors can ruin it for so many.
From the rampant littering to being inconsiderate to others to the disrespect shown to our home these people are friken pigs.
They make me appreciate the 95% who are nice and help me be a better tourist when I travel.

 

[Kurt]

It's the typical cycle though; people come here on vacation, fall in love, move here, realize what reality is living here and begin complaining about how crowded it is, people shouldn't come here, over built, etc.

I think that's been happening since the dawn of tourism.

 

[UpNorth]

Kinda seems inevitable pretty much everything south of 98 becomes 100% tourist land. Then whenever St Joe decides to let suburbia happen north it will but really I think that’s part of the problem. You have too much density south. Nothing really north. And the only way you make north of the ICW accessible is by getting enough density south that you get the state to build the connector bridge.

 

[Dawn]

Kinda seems inevitable pretty much everything south of 98 becomes 100% tourist land. Then whenever St Joe decides to let suburbia happen north it will but really I think that’s part of the problem. You have too much density south. Nothing really north. And the only way you make north of the ICW accessible is by getting enough density south that you get the state to build the connector bridge.

If you mean the bridge over the intracoastal, it is happening. Joe has a lot of land up there and they need access to the beaches, particularly at the Watersound beach club which is also why they have procured the access road from 98 to 30A through the state forest.

 

[UpNorth]

If you mean the bridge over the intracoastal, it is happening. Joe has a lot of land up there and they need access to the beaches, particularly at the Watersound beach club which is also why they have procured the access road from 98 to 30A through the state forest.

Is this new? From what I’ve been able to follow the intercoastal project has been slowly working its way through the process since like 2009. I know they’re moving faster with the parkway leading into the bridge in Bay County, but outside of minor progress through Longleaf park at Origins, hadn’t heard much on the Walton side. Certainly not any real dates for the bridge at least. The sales guys at Origins had told me 2027 but I could never verify that or find and updates with the Army Corp of Engineers.

 

[Matt J]

If you mean the bridge over the intracoastal, it is happening. Joe has a lot of land up there and they need access to the beaches, particularly at the Watersound beach club which is also why they have procured the access road from 98 to 30A through the state forest.

When did they do that?

 

[leeboy]

When did they do that?

It's done. What Joe wants, Joe gets.

 

[Matt J]

It's done. What Joe wants, Joe gets.

When? Y'all are making assertions and assumptions with no facts.