Tourismphobia

Tourismphobia is a neologism derived from the noun tourism and the compositional element -phobia.

Although tourismophobia can be understood as the 'aversion or rejection of tourism', the media and political movements has been using it in the most specific context of the rejection of overtourism, a tourism model characterised by massification and its negative consequences for the local population and workers.

Starting in the second half of the last century, the dissemination of tourism in neighborhoods and urban centers has generated a social claim based on the idea that overtourism is the direct cause of negative impacts such as unstable, seasonal and low salaries, degradation of the natural areas, difficulties to access to rental properties with increasing prices, environmental pollution, traffic problems and noise.

[3] The conflict represented by the neologism has been studied in academia since the 70's such as in George Doxey; who covered it from the root of the tourist destination.

[4] The problematic has not stopped being studied since then and the term overtourism became popular in academia after the launch of some journals' special issues in 2017.