TIME Magazine Asia August 6, 2018 Zurück Ausgabe

THE TOURISM TRAP
In Giovanni Bonazzon’s painTinGs, Venice is a vision of serenity. Bridges arch gracefully over rippling canals, sunlight bounces off flower-filled balconies, and not a single human mars the tranquility. Bonazzon’s daily vista is not as tranquil, however. An artist who paints and sells watercolors from an easel set up near San Marco Square, he has a ringside seat to the selfie-posing, ice-cream-licking hordes who roil their way daily toward the Doge’s Palace, and he readily agrees that tourism is killing his hometown. As vacationers threaten to turn Europe into a theme park, the continent is pushing back.