Copenhagen just launched one of the smartest responses to overtourism I’ve seen. | Jeremy Jauncey posted on the topic | LinkedIn
🏖 Copenhagen, 2025: Wonderful Copenhagen's CopenPay initiative, led by Rikke Holm Petersen, offers tourists rewards for contributing to the community, such as maintaining gardens for lunch or collecting rubbish for kayak rentals. This contribution-based tourism aims to combat overtourism, with the city forecasting a 24% growth in tourism by 2030. This model challenges traditional value extraction, suggesting a shift towards value exchange can rebalance tourist flows and alleviate pressure on crowded destinations.
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