Banning big cruise ships seems like an obvious solution.

cruisers are the worst .. every day thousands of people are coming into the old city, making a few photos and leave ..

It’s so sad that the locals are moving out of the city center. It reminds me of Venice, just a tourist attraction that may be beautiful but feels more like a theme park than a real town.

Omg this is so sad!! The people of the city deserve to live in their city without being bothered by tourists. Tourism is destroying the nature and towns of the Mediterranean.

I feel bad for the people that live there. It's not big enough.

Visit city and complain about people visiting city.

Well Daenerys burnt the town so the problem is solved now ☺

Croatia is beautiful, beautiful people, beautiful culture, I loved

Tax the tourists. Make them pay for it!

I just visited Dubrovnik in late October, and no crowds compared to what was illustrated in this video. We were told by locals just how busy it is in the summer. I'm relieved we missed all that, and it was still beautiful in the fall.

Its Cersei's fault, she allowed the Cruise ships to come now in. If the Dragon Queen ruled she would reverse this.

How can you even enjoy your holiday when you are overwhelmed by the crowd and traffic. Too stressful which is ironic bec as a tourist your main purpose is to relieve stress..

Game of Thrones and The Last Jedi were filmed there, hence the tourists.

I went early morning 7.00am. (End of June). Hardly any tourist. Enjoyed my time. Climbed city walls at 8am. First to get to walls. I took one hour on half of the wall. Great views. Next half only about 15minutes as tourist hordes started to get in from other city wall gate. I was pushed around. Wasnt a pleasant experience. I guess that was the best I could do.

We went in November and walked through the old city essentially by ourselves at night. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Really beautiful, but it’s a shame if it’s hurting the locals.

Usualy visited in spring - not to hot, not to crowdy, but not empty... I strongly recommend coming out of season. From march to may, if you can. Lovely city...

Kings Landing

If you're in France you should be more worried about what you're being overwhelmed by.

As a citizen of Dubrovnik its horrible i dont even go to old city on summer city is collapsing before city was designed in the way that there aren't any small ponds on the floor today there are because of tourists

Same with Oia, Santorini during high season. Especially during sunsets

You've wrote down our mayor name wrong. Even tho the guy is not an important figure anywhere his name is "Mato" and you could atleast get that right, considering that he's the damn mayor of our overcrowded city, or as most tourists call it these days unfortunately......kings landing

Many Croatians are complaining about tourists and tourism but they have absolutely no problem ripping off every single person that sets a foot in Dubrovnik. Soon tourists will have to pay for breathing the "game of thrones air".. I have met few locals who managed to save and build a house by working 3-4 months in a calendar year... Millions of tourists flock Thailand all year round and yet Thai people are smiling and welcoming as this is their main and probably only major income!

Not sure what solution there is to this, but this is a recurring problem with high visibility travel destinations : The locals move out. A city is its people. No people, no city. Then, its little different than Disneyland - it looks nice and tourists come in droves but nobody would live there ; they just come to work or look around.

wow.beautiful place😍

People want to see Kings Landing before Danny burns it down 😆

damn i was on a business trip in december there and was thinking how beautiful the city is, didnt expect that mass of tourism in the summer there.

I live in dubrovnik and when you walk trough the main street stadun in summer boi its like war you have to push and fight just to get to the other side and when you want ice cream you have to wait 4 hours

Thanks To everyone Im From Split Croatia.Tomorow i going To Dubrovnik.

I was part of the UNPROFOR mission in the 1990s and our unit was stationed outside just north of Split. I had the chance to visit Dubrovnik in 1995 for about four days and it was very peaceful and beautiful, despite the war that was going on not too far away. Would love to go back but I'm sure I'd be disappointed given my previous wonderful experience....

Croatia is the most beautiful holiday spot in Europe!

Kings Landing sure looks different

You should see Edinburgh in August, for the festival the tourists outnumber the residents 1,500,000 tourists against 500,000 residents.

People are truly like cattle. Where prodded to, they will roam. Grazing zombie-like with very little creativity, passion or spirit.

The reason why people are flooding to Dubrovnik is because it’s safe! Less families are visiting France and Italy due to fear!

Reminds me of the time I went to Southeast Asia. Tourists were EVERYWHERE! I mean, what’s the point of traveling to a different country if all I’ll see is the same people from home?🤨😒☹️

They should build a semi big airport near that city and ban the cruise ships.

Maybe i should just go in March

Mass tourism is a a way to self destruction, like pollution.

well this video just made me wana go there... sure i’m not the only one now.

I guess the Coronavirus solved this problem for now.

It's crazy like that in Summer only - if you really need warm weather be ready to share it. Otherwise go any other season to avoid crowds

One of my favourite cities in the world. A part of my soul is there!

I get that young people go because they saw it in game of thrones but why the heck are old people going there?

I'm going to Dubrovnik each few days and there are a lots of people. It reminds me on zombie hordes, lol. Anyway, Dubrovnik is a nice city, but overpriced (hype and prices). Speaking as Hrvat.

I have never seen so much old people in one place!!

Mass tourism is ruining the most beautiful places in South Europe

As a tourist how can this be enjoyable at any level? I guess one would get that Facebook pic to put on your wall. But that would be a poor standard to judge the success of a trip!

Welcome to the modern world, mass tourism is everywhere.

Nice place, but if the weather isn't right forget it. Dubrovnik is a large town not a bustling city and there are a limited number of things to do if the sun is absent.

Lisbon, Barcelona, Venice, Dublin are all no go areas now in Spring/Summer. Quick profit for a few but ruined lives for locals.

raise the damn prices thats how capitalism work, let the rich spend their money there, until europes banking cartels that scam the population break

Croatia nice city

I spent a week in Dubrovnik in July 2017 and I used the people-counting app/website to avoid the crowds in the old town. And managed to do that successfully.

My town: from 250k people to 2million people every summer. You can’t drive anywhere, you can’t get to the beaches, you can’t exist. Wherever there is heat, the human infection spreads like a disease.

Greed vs Heritage. Classic income issues.

I live in Dubrovnik and one time there were more tourists then citizens

Well, in Boracay in the Philippines .. the number of cruise ships has been limited.. I think they should do that also

Come to Slovenia is a little crowded

I viewed this as I was thinking of holidaying in Dubrovnik, not any more.

they could just sell tickets at the gates, to non-residents, non-citizens, etc. Charge enough money during the busy season, to actually reduce the incoming crowds. Problem solved.

Let the owners of the cruise ships pay 20-30 euros for each passenger on board the ships. At the same time, it would increase incomes and reduce tourism.

I went back in 2010 and there weren’t that many tourists back then

... go to split, labuski, zagreb, etc... some of the most beautiful places in croatia

Fees/taxes costing in the hundreds, to land and enter countries. Reduce flights, and implement different prices: locals/citizen prices, and then prices for non-locals. Enough is enough.

funny to see that european tourist have the same effect like immigrant when they go massively in a touristy city lol

this is like genocide of locals by tourism

I want to back to there

I’m here July/August time and I was expecting it to be so busy and uncomfortable but it’s not at all

Charge the visitors to enter the city.

Its happening to Split now as well - I couldn't believe how popular it became over a 5 year period. I hope its not in Zadar yet.

I hated venice because of this

everything is because Game of Thrones. So perhaps when the shows ends, the tourism will decline

develop another area ( thats valid and wont endanger any native wildlife ) to redirect tourist traffic.

its because its kings landing.

Her eyes are incredible and I do have a thing for redheads.

Im curious how is it during this pandemic?

they just need to wait until everyone's forgotten game of thrones - be a while, but it'll happen. It's a shame everyone's moving out, it won't be a real lived-in city any more, i know it's inevitable but it's a shame an ancient walled city becomes a museum and that continuous occupation, that tradition, ceases

The news presenter eyes..wow

maybe the gallery owner is not a good curator

Dubrovnik: *suffering from success* (Jk)

1:11 Również pozdrawiam Panią :)

What about today? Any problem with tourist??

Been there a week ago, it is not that full now :-D.

This is what we fought for.....

it will not be long to people start revolt and seriously limiting ship cruises. worse kind of turism.

dude, this is sad

Aww so sad, too many tourist dollars

i want to travel the world, but not at the expense of those who live there

thanks for the Game Of Thrones i’ve been there two years ago and on November less people and it’s Beautiful

Omg....not going anymore

Dubrovnik was everyone's but it was never a croatian city... Thanks to Tito it became croatian. The shepherd loves his sheep the most, doesn't he?

Yes Croatia is beautiful but too many tourists TOO MANY

Need some better city managers.

Game of Thrones has done to Dubrovnik what The Beach did to Thailand

I hate to go to the Old Town when I have music school in spring and fall

King's Landing is getting too crowded

This is what puts me off from traveling these hotspots

So many of my friends are getting moved out of their homes so the tourists visiting Split can move into their homes. The Digital Nomads/expats move in, the locals move out =(

Ive never heard of this city lol but seems sad

This video confirms my innate dislike of holidays. My last one was a two night trip about 12 years ago. I couldn't wait to get home. I feel sorry for the residents of places like this. There is a belief that tourism brings money in, as stated by one of the tourists, but that money rarely impacts on the majority of residents, who do not own shops and bars, etc.. In most places many of the staff in hotels, bars and restaurants are outsiders, there for the season, often foreign students. Stratford-upon-Avon was the place that I used to go to do my shopping, but it became impossible as the ordinary day to day shops were replaced by tourist traps. The out of town shops are like every other out of town site, and traffic is appalling. I no longer shop there. The same happens it places like Dubrovnik, people move out because of the crowds, the lack of shops for day to day living, and the lack of facilities. However, I also feel sorry for the tourists who are falling for the lure of these places. They arrive at a place, are herded like cattle, see only things above head height, and are ripped off in every bar, restaurant and cafe they enter. "Ah, but the memories they have" you might say. Well friends of mine who have travelled to many countries have admitted that they get confused between different places they've visited, and have often said that they did not see very much because of the crowds. So not many memories there. I shall continue to enjoy my home, with, perhaps the odd day trip (though it's almost 2 years since I was more than 20 miles from home). If I want to see a place, I've got KZfaq, and now I can also say I'm doing my bit to save these sites from destruction by over tourism....