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(4 Jun 2023)
CROATIA OVERTOURISM
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Dubrovnik, Croatia - 25 May 2023
1. High shot of Dubrovnik Old Town
2. Old town walls
3. City “Pile” gate
4. Sculpture of St. Blaise, patron saint of the city, above gate
5. Old city fortification and Adriatic Sea
6. Visitors on top of Fort Lovrijenac
7. Setup shot of Miro Draskovic, head of Dubrovnik tourist board
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Miro Draskovic, head of Dubrovnik tourist board:
"First of all, the number of, for instance, the cruise ships per-day is limited now to 4,000 people. The hours that they are staying, the length of their stay in Dubrovnik port, is much longer now. Most of them are staying for eight hours or more, some of them are staying for six hours. Anyone who didn’t want to obey by the rules, unfortunately we needed to say that they cannot come to Dubrovnik anymore."
9. Cutaway of cruise ships
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Miro Draskovic, head of Dubrovnik tourist board:
"The other thing we have, for instance, is the visitors counter, cameras that are put around the Old Town, which help us to know the exact number of visitors at any point of time. For instance, I just checked now, and it was 4,026 half an hour ago, which is a number which is good, which is a number which is acceptable, which is a number that doesn’t do big crowds in the Old Town, which is the number that makes everybody happy, of course. The inhabitants of the town as well as the tourists as well."
11. ‘Stradun’ main street
12. Visitors on old town walls
13. Fountain seen from walls
14. Group of tourists
15. Pan from walls
16. ‘Pile’ gate
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Strapac, visitor from Long Beach, California:
"Every place is touristy now. We have been worried about that for years, we come from tourist country, we live near Disneyland. We just tried to get here early enough in the summer, that it wasn’t wall-to-wall people, and we expected that. The airplane was absolutely packed. The airplane from Munich to Dubrovnik had no empty seats, it was just like flying Southwestern California. Overhead bins were full, and they were all coming here. And the bus that we rode down from our hotel... (makes squeezed motions)."
18. Cutaway of tourists in Old Town
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Strapac, visitor from Long Beach, California:
"I’ve been to Paris on Saturday night, and it is just as packed, just as busy. The Eiffel Tower is wall-to-wall people there. So, we are used to that, and they're happy people."
20. Visitors on walls
21. Old town

LEADIN:
With visitor limits and a tourist tax, Croatia's 'Game of Thrones' town Dubrovnik is hoping to tackle overtourism.

In recent years, locals have seen crowds of tourists clog the entrances to the ancient walled city, as huge cruise ships unloaded thousands of people daily, and fans of the popular TV series searched for the locations where it was filmed.

STORYLINE:
Dubrovnik, a picturesque city on Croatia's Adriatic coast, is facing the challenge of overtourism, as the number of annual visitors continues to rise.

The city, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, has seen a surge in tourism in recent years, with more than 1.2 million visitors arriving in 2019.

This has put a strain on the city's resources, including its water supply, waste management, and transportation systems.

During peak season, the city's narrow streets and historic buildings are often packed with tourists, making it difficult for locals to go about their daily lives.












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