#overtourism on Twitter: a social movement for change or an echo chamber?

O'Regan, Michael; Choe, Jaeyeon

doi:10.1080/13683500.2022.2047161

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#overtourism on Twitter: a social movement for change or an echo chamber?

Michael O'Regan

, Jaeyeon Choe

Current Issues in Tourism, Volume: 26, Issue: 7, Pages: 1082 - 1095

Swansea University Authors: Michael O'Regan , Jaeyeon Choe

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When the linguistic innovation and phrase overtourism was used in an online news report to describe excessive tourism in Iceland in 2016, legacy and social media soon following with in-depth articles and visual representations of perceived excessive tourism in other locations around the world. Given...

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