Tourist hotspots: Travelling with the wrong crowd123RF It's a bit crowded in Venice. City tourist agencies and travellers alike should use technology for crowd management, information and "hacks" more than we do. It's coming into peak season in the Northern Hemisphere so the chorus about overcrowding in tourist hotspots is as shrill as it is predictable. Balancing enclosed tourist traps with gardens, open spaces and hideaway haunts can stop the feeling of being one of the tourist herd marching dutifully to your death. The mad rush to the tourist traps also explains the move towards hipster, off-the-beaten path travel holidays.

Source: Stuff June 25, 2016 16:52 UTC