Travel Tomorrow, an industry commentary outlet, argues that "temporal and spatial dispersal" strategies used by destinations to fight overtourism (spreading visitors to the shoulder season or the outskirts of a city) can backfire by pushing tourism into the "backstage" areas residents use for everyday life, denying them the off-season breathing space they previously had. Why it matters: destination managers currently piloting dispersal strategies (a common response encouraged under several national and EU-level overtourism initiatives) should weigh this trade-off explicitly rather than treating dispersal as an automatic win for residents.

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