Surtourisme dans l'hypercentre - épisode 2

While the harmful impacts of the drifts linked to the excessive concentration of tourist activities in city centers are well documented and known, Brussels continues to gamble on the exploitation of new projects attractive to visitors, to the detriment of the inhabited city. From the beer museum that has taken place in the Stock Exchange, right up to the Cat museum under construction, this itinerary raises awareness of the consequences of the absence of regulation of the tourist function but also of the perverse effects of neighborhoods entirely dedicated to museums like our famous "Mont des Arts": disappearance of traditional housing, proliferation of the horeca sector, decrease in commercial diversity, and overexploitation of public spaces... And if there are indeed places that crystallize all these issues, they are the galleries we will cross along the way, from the Agora gallery to the Bortier gallery, without forgetting the Royales Saint-Hubert galleries suffering full-on from the "pralinsation" of the city! Despite the political difficulty of reversing the trend, it is possible to chart another path to defend a city project that gives priority to residents, and this tour certainly intends to offer you some avenues of action and alternative demands to counter overtourism without ever forgetting that the most pleasant cities to visit... are those that are alive and inhabited!