Fodor’s No List includes “15 destinations to reconsider” for the year ahead
Tourism protests in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on April 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Borja Suarez
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As magazine and brands around the world publish their ‘best of’ tips and hot lists for travel in 2025, Fodor’s has once again taken the opposite tack.
Its ‘Fodor’s No List 2025′ includes 15 “destinations to reconsider” for the year ahead.
The list aims to spotlight destinations suffering from “untenable popularity”, the US-based guide says.
While they may be stunning, intriguing, and culturally significant, “some of these highly coveted tourist spots are collapsing under the burden of their own prominence”, it says.
A ‘Perennial No List’ includes Bali, Thailand’s Koh Samui and Mount Everest, along with several European destinations “where locals don’t want you” – Barcelona, Mallorca, Venice and the Canary Islands.
People protest against the introduction of the tourist fee to visit the city of Venice for day trippers in a move to preserve the lagoon city. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri
All four have seen protests against mass tourism models this year, with protesters in Barcelona at one point even spraying visitors with water pistols.
Venice this year trialled a €5 charge for day visitors, and many protests have focused on the role of short-term tourism rentals in driving up living and rental costs for locals.
Fodor’s Perennial No List
Destinations beginning to suffer
The ‘No List’ goes into detail on each inclusion, looking for instance at how the new season of HBO’s The White Lotus may effect overtourism in Koh Samui next year, and the island’s issues with waste management.
It examines how Scotland’s North Coast 500 has brought revenue, but also problems with traffic congestion, wild camping and tourist behaviour.
The Italian Capital of Culture for 2025, Agrigento in Sicily, is facing a “severe water crisis that could be further aggravated by increased tourism”, it says.
“The No List serves to highlight destinations where tourism is placing unsustainable pressures on the land and local communities,” Fodor’s says.
“Fodor’s does not advocate for travel boycotts – they harm local economies and fail to bring about meaningful change.
“But we do believe that the first step to alleviating a problem is recognising there is one.”
Fodor’s No List is online here.
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