Ep 231 - Over Tourism and the Emerging Destination Awards

Nate Hake is a Travel Blogger and Digital Nomad who promotes emerging travel destinations around the world through his travel blog, Travel Lemming, in order to combat Over Tourism. He is also an attorney, an entrepreneur, and the co-founder of a B2B software startup. He was able to visit 43 countries in a single year and is still traveling around the world.

On this episode, Nate talks about the rising problem of Over Tourism on popular tourist destinations and some solutions to counter this tourist concern. With the Emerging Destination Awards, he reveals some of the amazing places in the world that are as breathtaking, or even more, as the common tourist destinations we see and hear on the media.

 

Links:

TravelLemming.com Travel Lifestyle Course  Emerging Destinations - Here are last year's awards  Pruvo Hotel Hack

 

Time Stamps:

04:14 – Does Over Tourism constitute a problem? 05:55 – What drives Over Tourism? 05:47 – “The part of the problem is that tourists have this tendency to always go to same places” - @TravelLemming 07:35 – The purpose of Emerging Destination Awards 08:16 – “If people start realizing that there are other places to go to, that has to be a big part of the solution” - @TravelLemming 08:40 – Unknown places with beautiful tourist spots 12:42 – Are digital nomads part of the over-tourism problem 16:26 – Disadvantages of short-term tourists 21:48 – Big winners of the Emerging Destination Awards 25:55 – Impact of locals to tourism 31:34 – Congestion caused by Cruise Ships 40:08 – Upside of making side trips 43:19 – Upcoming digital nomad destinations 54:28 – Business behind travel blogging

 

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