Kodaş, BetülCan, İpek Itırİflazoğlu, Nurhayat2025-02-152025-02-1520202147-8775https://doi.org/10.21325/jotags.2020.714https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/en/yayin/detay/525885/overtourism-movements-and-tourism-phobia-in-the-light-of-media-coveragehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/6341Tourism, which is one of the world's largest industries, has been tending to unwittingly\rendanger its own existence since 2012 when the number of international tourists rose to\rover 1 billion. One of the top challenges facing tourism in the 21st century is tourism phobia\rand the upward trend of the phobia in recent years. Anti-tourism movements have been\rrolled out in Barcelona and Venice under the motto \"this is not tourism, this is invasion\",\rleading to a ripple effect across Europe. The momentum of anti-tourism movements has\rattracted the interest of academics of tourism, and it has been argued that it is of priority for\rfurther studies. Anti-tourism movements led by local people result from overcrowding,\rnoise, infrastructural problems and similar challenges. The majority of people consider\rtourism not something that brings about benefits but a detrimental activity. In addition, such\rmovements wreak their anger on tourists, the least responsible party among the\rstakeholders. Tourism phobia is the fear, aversion or social rejection that the local citizens\rfeel in a destination towards tourists. One of the reasons behind tourism phobia's rise around\rthe world is media coverage without a question. How tourism phobia is interpreted and\rnarrated by media outlets is of capital importance as they have a direct influence on\rindividuals, groups of people and a society as a whole. To this end, the study, which relies\ron a descriptive analysis, addresses 16 news reports covered by international media outlets\rabout anti-tourism movements and tourism phobia. The analysis pointed to four main\rthemes in advent of overtourism, effects of overtourism and tourism phobia, anti-tourism\rpropagandas, measures and limitations, and a total of 20 thematic codes of those codes.en10.21325/jotags.2020.714info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessOtelcilikKonaklamaSpor Ve TurizmİşletmeArticle84695707N/AN/A5258852