Parking, quotas, accommodation… what solutions in the face of the “overflow” of tourists?

2023-05-27 15:31:50

1.5 million visitors… in a village of less than 1,400 inhabitants: here is the wave which breaks every year in Étretat, in Normandy. In all the very tourist sites, it’s the same equation: to absorb massive tourism which holds the local economy, while preserving a place not sized for that. “We must act”, sums up, on the eve of the long Pentecost weekend, Antoine Béco, mayor of Loubressac and president of the tourist office of the Dordogne Valley, managing eight listed villages including Rocamadour. Otherwise ? “This will be the breaking point,” fears the mayor.