Fodor’s travel guide places Kerala on its ‘No List 2025’

KOCHI: Is Kerala falling sufferer to overtourism? Has the surge in tourism actions aggravated pure disasters, notably in eco-sensitive areas within the state? If Fodor’s journey information is something to go by, it might appear so.

Fodor’s Journey, a California-based on-line tourism data supplier, has come out with a ‘No Checklist 2025’ which mentions 15 locations from the world over, together with Kerala, the place tourism is inserting unsustainable pressures on the land and the native communities.

As per Fodor’s, the places named within the checklist are widespread for cause.

“They’re gorgeous, intriguing and culturally vital. Nonetheless, a few of these extremely coveted vacationer spots are collapsing underneath the burden of their prominence,” it says.

Kerala has been positioned underneath the top ‘Locations Starting to Endure’.

Inserting Kerala within the checklist, the worldwide journey information has cited the landslides in Wayanad and the shrinking lakes and backwaters to make its level.

The opposite locations which were deemed ‘starting to endure’ are Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan, the British Virgin Islands, Agrigento in Italy, Oaxaca in Mexico and Scotland North Coast 500.

It quotes environmentalists and consultants to focus on how the surge in tourism has aggravated the affect of pure disasters, particularly in areas the place growth has obstructed the pure move of water, thereby rising landslide dangers.