The World Travel & Tourism Council announced a list of the top cities expected to receive more tourists over the next ten years, with Cairo at the top of the list, which also included Delhi, Manila, Bangkok and Moscow. In its report attached to the list, the council recommended that the governments of those countries begin upgrading the infrastructure needed to deal effectively with this increase.
The report published by the council on "Overtourism... and its impact on many European travel destinations" addressed how those countries have already begun taking measures to reduce the number of tourists they receive, who have become a burden on them without any benefit, according to the "Egypt Today" website.
The Oxford Dictionary defined "overtourism" in 2018 as an enormous number of tourist visits to a popular destination or tourist attraction, resulting in damage to the local environment and historic sites and a negative impact on residents' quality of life.
CNN reported that 36% of international tourism trips, which numbered 1.4 billion in 2018, were concentrated in just one destination among the 300 largest popular cities in the world, and this phenomenon is expected to keep growing, with other cities soon joining the list of the most popular tourist destinations.
The report also stated that a number of cities have already begun developing infrastructure to absorb the increase in tourist numbers while mitigating its impact on residents and the local environment, among them Amsterdam, Bali, Edinburgh, Rome, Venice, Barcelona, Santorini, Prague and Machu Picchu.
