Replication Data for: Global (over)Tourism Index

Overtourism entered the popular lexicon in 2018. Two years later, COVID-19 brought international travel to a screeching halt. Suddenly, undertourism was an issue for communities that had grown economically dependent upon the tourism industry. This shift signaled that the term overtourism was a portmanteau for a suite of risks from tourism – economic dependence, crowding, resource depletion, overburdened infrastructure, loss of local autonomy, rising xenophobia, high rents, noise pollution. Even as the crisis of overtourism reemerges, there are no defined analytic categories that measure risks from (over)tourism within and across communities. This paper offers a model for the creation of a Global (over)Tourism Index that measures risks from tourism to community well-being in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales. We posit that the indexing of tourism risk will generate questions that bring relevant stakeholders together to discuss tools and strategies for risk mitigation with more urgency than current discussions focused on sustainability.