Greece starts limiting Acropolis daily visitors to tackle overtourism
cnn.com
One of Greece’s most famous landmarks is trialing limiting its daily visitors, starting today.
The Athens Acropolis archaeological site attracts visitors from around the world keen to marvel at the ancient cultural spot. Going forward, visitors will be capped at 20,000 a day, with a booking website keeping track of footfall and enforcing an hourly slot system.
In an interview with Greek radio station Real FM in August, Greek culture minister Lina Mendoni said that the Acropolis currently has up to 23,000 daily visitors, calling this a “huge number.”
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How does this number compare to other popular attractions? For me it's hard to comprehend this number
To give you some perspective, Disney World sees roughly 160,000 visitors a day. The EPCOT Center alone inside Disney World sees 34,000 visitors daily.
Yes, and now Acropolis will get Disney World lines. And I am sure the Acropolis Genie app is coming, where just by paying $35 you can conveniently reduce your wait time from 1 hour to just 55 minutes! And of course in order to take advantage of the app, you have to use it exactly at 7am, because who the fuck is sleeping at 7 during vacation?!
Acropolis: 12,500 m^2
EPCOT: 1.2 million m^2
The Acropolis of Athens is extremely small. EPCOT is 40x larger(123 hectares vs 3 hectares).
Do you know what the Acropolis is lol
Spoiler alert, it's not disney world
Yes, I do. But not everyone does, apparently. But most people know what Disney World is, and the scope of it.
That was the point I was making. It's not the size of Disney World. It's much smaller, hence the lower attendance. So it gives you some perspective...
Oh, that went over my head