As protestors have taken to the streets across Spain , disrupted a billionaire’s wedding in Venice , and even caused a shutdown of the Louvre in the shape of a staff mutiny about overcrowding, Noel Josephides has been watching with one phrase on his mind: I told you so .

“I could have told you that would happen 10 years ago,” he says. “And I said so. I said, ‘This is going to get out of control.’”

Josephides is the longstanding chairman of Sunvil , a UK-based tour operator that has been sending comfortably-off Brits on vacation since 1970. He’s also a former chairman of ABTA and AITO, both UK travel industry bodies, which makes him one of the big beasts of European tourism.

And he says he saw Europe’s current overtourism meltdown coming.

“I said there’ll be enormous problem

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