Abstract
Debates on overtourism, as a challenging phenomenon, are becoming more and more active. The purpose of this integrative review paper is to discuss the right to travel and residents’ rights in the context of overtourism and sustainable tourism, analyzing different scientific and legal sources. The integrative review analysis shows that overtourism and sustainable tourism are important contexts influencing the changing meaning of the right to travel and the right to live. On the one hand, the overtourism context makes the voices of residents more important to be heard, while on the other hand the sustainable tourism context influences the discussion of the right to travel, asking tourist voices to be considered more important. The results of this integrative review also shows the importance of rethinking the concept of sustainability in tourism as a holistic principle of democracy and as a degrowth movement, and opens the broader discussion for future tourism research development. The problem of overtourism could be solved by striving to develop sustainable tourism goals, thus balancing equality between the right to travel and residents’ rights. The presented integrative review paper is a preliminary work; further research is needed in order to find possible concrete solutions for overtourism.
Highlights
A discussion regarding overtourism in the context of the right to travel and residents’ rights is needed, as debates on overtourism, as a challenging phenomenon, are becoming more and more active
The integrated review data was organized under the following themes: the phenomena of overtourism; legal regulation of the rights of individuals to travel and residents’ rights in the context of overtourism; and the rights of individuals to travel and residents’ rights in the context of sustainable tourism
After analysis of legal acts related to the rights of travelers and the residents’ rights in the context of overtourism, it can be noted that the rights of travelers are clearer and better protected, and the interpretation of the rights of the local population is too broad and not as effectively expressed
Summary
A discussion regarding overtourism in the context of the right to travel and residents’ rights is needed, as debates on overtourism, as a challenging phenomenon, are becoming more and more active. Tourism is associated with the processes of globalization, experiencing (as yet) an uncertain trajectory of growth, and generating and distributing its benefits and costs unevenly (Mowforth and Munt, 2015; Gren and Huijbens, 2016, as cited in Margaryan, [6]) This has to be emphasized, as noted by Margaryan [6], because tourism has for a long time (and often still) been uncritically perceived as an alternative to heavy industries, as it is considered light, clean, low-impact, and non-consumptive. Dauvergne and Sovereignty [11] have analyzed how the right to free movement confronts the state-based international community The importance of those rights, legal regulation, and problems were further revealed by Gilbert and Groenendijk et al [12]
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