In Thailand the government has closed beaches where tourists have caused the destruction of the ecology and coral. In Venice they have banned leviathan-size cruise ships from docking. But in Rome they can’t even manage to pick up the garbage. 

After a decline during Covid, the number of international tourist arrivals in Italy as of May of this year grew by 15 percent compared to the previous year—about 7.7 million, a million more than last year; 68 million visitors are expected this year. Overwhelmingly these tourists are engorging Italy’s main attractions, with ferries bringing tens of thousands every day to Capri and caravans of buses to trip over the ruins of Pompeii.