One of Greece’s most famous landmarks is trialing limiting its daily visitors, starting today.
The Athens Acropolis archaeological site attracts visitors from around the world keen to marvel at the ancient cultural spot. Going forward, visitors will be capped at 20,000 a day, with a booking website keeping track of footfall and enforcing an hourly slot system.
In an interview with Greek radio station Real FM in August, Greek culture minister Lina Mendoni said that the Acropolis currently has up to 23,000 daily visitors, calling this a “huge number.”
Although I’d love to see the buildings of the Acropolis I would never go anywhere that has 20,000 visitors a day. Nope.
Grand Central Station in NYC has 750,000 visitors a day.
JFK Airport gets 150,000 visitors a day.
Mall of America gets 110,000 visitors a day.
I think you wouldn’t be able to leave your house and go just about anywhere if you are so hell bent on not going anywhere heavily trafficked. If the biggest mall in America gets 110,000 visitors a day, your local mall might still be in the tens of thousands a day.
I guess my statement was too broad, I don’t want to go to any tourist attraction that has that many. I have been in many airports and malls, but not for the joy of experiencing nature or history, my two favorite things.
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is…
They SAY of the ACROPOLIS where the PARTHENON IS…
It’s crazy to me this many people have the means to travel at all times.
I’m not sure if you know, but there are a lot of fucking people on this planet.
Greece is a cheap vacation for Europeans and they actually have vacation days.
Fair enough. It’s not like we need everyone to personally survey every landmark, especially with everyone sharing everything they do.
If anything, if you’re going there to take a picture of it, you shouldn’t be allowed in. Look at someone else’s, if that’s the important part.
Overtourism? Overpopulation
