Locals within the picturesque Austrian village of Hallstatt have staged a protest in opposition to mass tourism by blocking the primary street to the city.
The lakeside village – which some say was the inspiration for Arendelle in Disney’s Frozen – has a inhabitants of simply 800, however will get as much as 10,000 guests a day throughout excessive season.
On Sunday, locals blocked the primary entry tunnel to the village in a protest in opposition to overtourism.
The tunnel was closed for about quarter-hour, Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten reported.
About 100 folks gathered for the protest, carrying placards with slogans akin to “Now an emergency brake. Or we will be run over”; “Think of our children” and “Radical frontiers for mass tourism”.
The protesters wished a cap on each day guests and a 5pm curfew for tour buses.
Hallstatt is a UNESCO World Heritage website and has seen a growth in tourism in recent times. Before the pandemic it noticed roughly one million guests a 12 months.
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Fed-up locals put up an “anti-selfie fence” earlier this 12 months, blocking a part of the mountain view to discourage vacationers and the noise air pollution they create. It was later taken down.
At the time, the mayor stated he wished to cut back the variety of tour buses by a 3rd.
The recognition of Hallstatt was partly fuelled by a 2006 Korean TV sequence, Spring Waltz, which was shot there.
Six years later, a life-size reproduction of the village was opened within the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
Source: information.sky.com”