...well don't go to China lol! can't read the article due to paywall but can grok the content based on the title. When you break it all down it's pretty much a

...well don't go to China lol! can't read the article due to paywall but can grok the content based on the title. When you break it all down it's pretty much a supply/demand type issue where supply is constantly limited, or in reality decreasing, and demand is increasing rapidly. The only thing that can adjust the speed of the above is pricing and regulations. Unfortunately, many "destinations" are hungry for the tourist dollars and don't think about (or know how to) building a sustainable industry. Regulations can help; some examples: --Antarctica treaty limits size of boats that can make landings, number of people that can be on land at once and the minimum ratio of guides/tourists. --Bhutan limits the number of tourists allowed in the country annually, requires they tour with a guided company, and mandates a minimum spending amount per day. --Ecuador limits boats in Galapagos to maximum of 100 passengers, limits the port of calls allowed based on boat size and has consistently increased entry fees to balance demand --Even in San Francisco they passed an ordinance banning tour buses in certain neighborhoods as they were a constant nuisance of noise and pollution. Beyond regulation, its just a matter of price and accessibility. There's tons of wilderness still throughout the world but very little is easily accessible or of interest to typical tourist. If there's only one or two flights in/out per week to a remote destination you know tourists numbers will be limited. Anyone with 30-60k can visit the north pole. Ive seen pictures and it looks boring AF but at least it's exclusive. Even climbing Everest now is described as an escalator up the world's highest garbage dump. Comparatively, Venice is a city of 50-60k ppl but sees 20M tourists a year! They are starting to put some things in place to control the insanity but it's probably too little too late. Unfortunately, at the risk of sounding racist, a big part of the problem for more typical destinations is newly rich asian middle class hungry for luxury but completely unaware of local culture/customs, uneducated on the sensitivity of ecosystems, etc. Seems like everyone agrees that the Chinese have taken the lead position as world's worst tourists... and they've already reached 2x the size of Americans (which are admittedly also pretty terrible) int'l annual travel volume. Also, the internet must share some of the blame! you used to have to work hard to discover a new place, research a desination, meet locals to find out the best secrets... now the Internet lays all to bare and its simply a competition of who has the most impressive instagram roll. Even, the park next to my house used to be a relative deadzone but now gets all sorts of tourist traffic because it was featured on some hidden gems of SF type website.