From the heaving mass of humanity in Venice to the ceaseless press of crowds around the Mona Lisa in Paris, Europe’s premiere tourist spots have a problem — too many tourists.
Now, an eminent Swiss economist says he has the answer: build a St Mark’s Square called “Mark 2”, create a lookalike Louvre and do the same for more than 100 sites suffering from “over-tourism” — then let the hordes descend.
Bruno Frey, 79, a professor at the University of Basel, has written a book in which he says that the world should think about building high-quality replicas of attractions, even better than the originals, to cope with an unsustainable surge in tourism, as attempts to restrict access to the real thing simply will not
