Dr Dominic Standish

Dr Domin­ic Standish

Dominic Standish

A lec­turer at the Uni­ver­sity of Iowa, Domin­ic Standish is the author of Venice in Envir­on­ment­al Per­il? Myth and Real­ity (UPA, 2012) with updates at dstandish.com and on Twit­ter. Dr Standish has lived in the Venice region since 1997.

Mass tourism in Venice: Are city officials overreacting?

April 11, 2023

Mass tourism in Venice. Overtourism overreaction? Image by Alex B (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/mcsmandalas-1918387/

Tour­ists should be wel­comed and cel­eb­rated but in Venice they are facing rejec­tion and even crim­in­al­isa­tion, accord­ing to long-time Ven­eto res­id­ent Domin­ic Standish. Are city offi­cials over­re­act­ing to legit­im­ate con­cerns about mass tour­ism in Venice? And how might they man­age tour­ism bet­ter? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight ini­ti­ated by Tourism’s Hori­zon, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. [You […]

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