10 destinations where tourists are no longer welcome

To preserve the environment and the sustainability of the place, some countries manage the influx of tourism. Here are 10 destinations now without tourists.

Bills of international tourists around the world. Growing affluence in countries so far deemed unattractive. Millions more visitors in the countries already run by travellers. An extremely heavy industry in the world economy. More and more airlines. No doubt, tourism has exploded in recent decades. But such a boom is not without devastating consequences. Men, the environment and all ecosystems are sometimes heavily shaken by the massive arrival of tourists. Therefore, some destinations have decided to stop the machine. Discover ten destinations where tourists are no longer welcome. See, have never been honestly...

1. Bhutan

To the edges of the Himalaya , flirting with clouds and loved in the arms of Buddha, Bhutan leaves many travelers dreaming. Lands of treks, nature, contemplation and silence, the country is also famous for its BIB. Either, the Blissful Interior Brut. This happiness there, the Bhutanese want to keep it expensive. They have thus long protected themselves from the outside world and opened borders to visitors only in 1974.

Yet Bhutan remains a destination without tourists. In order to keep their environment, traditions and monuments intact, Bhutanese only let visitors return under certain conditions. Already, they must go through a local or French travel agency. The latter is the only one who can provide the mandatory entry visa. Then, a colossal daily living fee is imposed on each traveller (150€ on average).

2. Boracay Island, Philippines

Closed in 2018 and without tourists welcomed for six months, this island was able to learn from the past. Because of surfing, this little paradise in the Philippines had turned into a real trash. To such a point that a huge half-year cleaning was established!

Today, Boracay Island no longer lets travellers invade and sail its exceptional natural spaces. Formal prohibition of smoking or drinking on beaches. They found their faces of postcards. In addition, the number of tourists is carefully filtered as well as the number of hotel infrastructures.

3. Maya Bay, Thailand

The most famous beaches in Thailand literally closed its white sand banks to the hordes of tourists from all over the world. Tourists forbidden until further order! Made famous thanks to the film La Plage , whose main character is embodied by Leonardo DiCaprio, her fame – and human beta – were right.

Following the tourist boom, marine species were completely destroyed and 50% of corals were devastated. To date, and at least until 2021, tourists are no longer welcome to Maya Bay! The stopping of the pollution of boats and waste left by tourists has already among the reintroduction of many coral reefs and many endemic species.

4. The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

This name probably rings in your ears as a promise of sparkling biodiversity. In order to preserve this natural setting, the government has found the balance between tourism development and the protection of indigenous wildlife.

Therefore, there is a list of fourteen rules (in addition to the strict quota of visitors and the entrance fee) that all travellers must scrupulously respect. Thus, to summarize, it is forbidden to:

• Touch, disturb, feed any animal;
• Arrest the least plant;
• Carry from island to island living organisms;
• Walk off the marked paths;
• Throw away any detritus;
• Buying memories from natural resources;
• Smoking on the entire island.

5. L’Antarctica

Another destination without tourists: the extreme south of our planet. Fascinating land, magnetic for explorers, abundant in prison resources under ice. Or divided by the longest mountain range in the world, astonishing cradle of an extinct volcanic activity and covered with mega-dunes jellies, Antarctica is an invaluable jewel.

But a preserved jewel. Only forty thousand visitors per year are entitled to crowd this territory. Land excursions are limited to 100 people, for three hours. No heavy-duty boat is also allowed to navigate the dock.

6. Uluru - Ayers Rock, Australia

This announcement sounded like a glas, pushing a tourist horde to enjoy the experience before it becomes banned. It has been there since 2019, the summit of Uluru has become a forbidden destination for tourists. This emblematic monolith of Australia, also known as Ayers Rock is a venerated and sacred place in Aboriginal culture.

Nevertheless, the tourist influx was seriously beginning to degrade the place and jeopardize the Aboriginal vestiges. Not to mention the danger of climbing! Since the summit, culminating at almost three-cent fifty metres, was only accessible through more or less dizzying and fragile paths.

7. Surtsey, Iceland

Off the coast of Iceland, a small island fascinates and intrigues the scientific community around the world: Surtsey. The story is that an underwater volcanic eruption gave birth to this young island around 1963.

Only this was the first time that Man was able to observe the birth of a volcanic island and analyze this phenomenon in real time. What amazement was that of scientists when they suddenly saw a piece of land pointing the tip of his nose to the surface of the ocean. In the course of the course of the course of the volcanic phenomena, sabrating the sky of thick smoke columns.

However, in order to preserve the exceptional fauna and flora of this island, only geologists, biologists and volcanoologists can set foot there. This forbidden destination to tourists will therefore, for most of us, remain a mystery to approach a few meters by boat or by plane.

8. Lord Howe Island, Australia

Perhaps you have never heard of this dream destination off Australia. Normally, it is a destination without tourists. Yet this tiny island surging from the Pacific is classified as World Heritage and is home to stunning views. Crystalline lagoons, green mountains advancing into steep cliffs above the water and growing beaches lined with white sand.

Born in volcanic activity, this island has a unique ecosystem and endemic species. Such a beauty setting should be protected from mass tourism! There are only three hundred inhabitants on the island and they refuse to see more than four hundred visitors arrive at the same time. On site, only two luxurious hotels. For the rest, these are small accommodations with simple comfort.

9. The Wave, United States

There is a unique meeting point between Utah and Aziona: The Wave. This impressive and hypnotic rock formations are a witness to an incredible geological phenomenon. Sculpted by the wind and water, this rolling and reversing valley is also very fragile. This treasure would be quickly damaged by a too large tourist influx.

Thus, the site welcomes only twenty people a day. This is almost without tourists. Ten places are assigned by an online lottery and ten others on site. In addition, registration must be made several months in advance or otherwise, it is necessary to be at nine hours in advance Visitor Center !

10. Atoll d’Aldabra, Seychelles

The last of our destinations without tourists is in Seychelles. Aldabra atoll: a ring-shaped island in a lagoon, consisting of coral reefs and a highly preserved ecosystem. Difficult to access, promised land of giant turtles and endemic bird colonies, this piece of paradise is an inaccessible dream. Or rather, accessible only to groups of thirty people, asked to follow very strict rules, to dismantle before the nightfall and to pay an entry fee of €1,000.

The Seychellois, who have always made efforts to limit environmental impacts and contain the number of travellers on their archipelago, decided that no one would impair the surreal beauty of this atoll.

You now know the most beautiful destinations without tourists. Fortunately, our planet is full of other exceptional places!