*The Cons of Social Media Fame: TikTok Tourists Pollute Picturesque Villages*

*The Cons of Social Media Fame: TikTok Tourists Pollute Picturesque Villages*

For the past few years, Bourton has been enchanted as one of the best places to showcase the sights through social media diplomacy on TikTok and Instagram, but unfortunately, as with any fame, such places also have their downside: locals feel bad for this kind of tourist’s presence in the area.

*The Problem of Over-Tourism*

Visiting Bourton mostly for taking videos and selfies far from Cotswold district councillor Jon Wareing leaves the village in a dilemma. Fast tourism is how some describe it: A group of visitors overstresses social networks for fun. There is no tourism interest in the heritage culture or natural environment of Bourton.”

*The Impact on the Local Residents*

Overtourism in Bourton-on-the-water was found. Tourists’ rude behavior was:
-Picked up and dumped litter across the village, especially on the green, from the large influx of visitors.
-Residents have reported verbal and physical abuse from tourists.
-Great congestion for local people in their day-to-day activities.

*Other Villages Being Suffered*

Not just Bourton-on-the-Water, which village finds another different problem with media fame. Other villages are also Bibury in Gloucestershire and Castleton in the Peak District.

– *Bibury*: Locals thus banded together with the council in a bid to prevent their village getting too…