几年前，我正在挪威的Trollstigen（Troll's Sto Stors），是该国最受欢迎的摩托车目的地之一。位于安纳尔斯因和挪威最着名的峡湾之间，这条路是不可否认的，但也令人难以置信地拥挤。在夏季夏季的峰值期间，Trollstigen用摩托车手，露营者和汽车爬行慢慢上升;曾经在顶部，人们公园车的车辆，尽职尽责地走向几个景观点，采取自拍照，汗水，吹回停车场，喝冷饮，然后继续驾驶。Passo Stelvio，欧洲的另一个“最美丽”的道路，正在看到类似的命运。

Even more remote places were seeing an unprecedented surge of adventure riders recently. Back in 2013, I barely saw a soul on two wheels on most of the Pan American Highway, let alone the smaller inland roads in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and especially Bolivia. Last year? The places were packed. Not nearly to the extent of Trollstigen or Stelvio, of course, but seven years ago in South America, I’d see maybe 4-5 motorcyclists a month. Last year, on the more popular routes, I’d see at least a couple a day.

The Era of Overtourism

Pre-Corona, the growing number of adventure riders venturing out to explore the now mainstream Alaska – Ushuaia, Nordkapp – Cape Town, or London – Vladivostok routes weren’t surprising. With motorcycle manufacturers catering to the new market, other travellers making it easier than ever to plan routes and ship bikes by posting detailed ride reports, blog entries, and social media content, motorcycle tour companies jumping on the bandwagon to provide long-distance tours, and cheap motorcycle shipping and flying options, this was bound to happen.

尽管如此，漫游世界的冒险骑手数量无处可去游新利18苹果客洪水的规模附近“铲斗列表“目的地。过度旅游已成为这种大规模的问题，即秘鲁政府必须开始限制马丘比丘的门票，威尼斯居民在悲惨的旅游部队和巡航船污染城市的巡航船只，而泰国着名的玛雅湾岛屿不得不由于对脆弱的当地生态系统造成严重损害，由于严重损坏，永久关闭旅游业。

群众旅游从世界各地的无数景点造成威胁，从驾驶成本和高于当地人的租赁可以提供和更换当地的旅游商店，销售在中国制造的“正宗”饰品，以侵蚀当地文化，语言和损害环境的真实性和损害环境。肆无忌惮地过度拥挤似乎接管了整个地方强迫居民要么适应或搬出，而摩托车手占所有旅行者的小百分比，我们也为这个问题做出了贡献。作为一个例子，南美洲，中亚和非洲的大多数摩托车旅游和租赁公司都是西方人所拥有的，而不是当地人;虽然摩托车手往往独自旅行并经常留下人迹罕至的路径，但我们仍然访问大多数桶列表目的地，如UYUNI的盐舱或Cuzco附近的彩虹山。这是在短短四年内将在地球上以前未知的地球变成大众旅游巴士胜地的主要示例。

Make Travel Exclusive Again?

就在几个月前，没有人会想象如何遏制大众旅游。一方面，一方面，廉价航班和旅游的基础设施使得更多的可能性是更多的人，这听起来像一个本质上的好事：旅行不再是富裕的奢侈品，越来越多的人可以看到世界。它促进了世界各地无数的经济体，从贫困和改善基础设施中举起许多社区。另一方面，大众旅游改变了旅行的意义;它不再是发现世界的方式，因为它成为一个舒适而简单的游艇上度假，或者在布拉格或布达佩斯在雄鹿上喝醉。

Much like Google and the obsession with SEO has changed the way writers and videographers create content to cater to algorithms and bots to attract more traffic, the tourism industry has erased cultural experiences by offering cheap packaged holidays where the locals have learned what tourists like and offer exactly that instead of staying authentic. Going on a beach holiday in Malaga where most locals speak English and every other bar is a British-owned pub while staying in a chain hotel isn’t exactly experiencing Spain, a lot like a tourist bus ride to Grand Canyon and a weekend in Vegas won’t inform much about the American culture.

To a degree, this has happened to adventure travel, too; havingthatselfie at the “Fin del Mundo” sign in Tierra del Fuego or the “Tropic of the Capricorn” in Namibia has become mainstream, and in the recent years, you could go on a two or three-month motorcycle tour of South America hitting all the “bucket list” spots along the way while experiencing very little of the local culture.

然而,几乎一夜之间,所有的已经到了an end, and with the travel and tourism industry coming to a grinding halt, the way we explore the world is going to change in ways we can’t even see yet. There is a very real possibility that travel may become accessible to much fewer people, and that it will become exclusive once again, for better or for worse.

我想知道也许还有另一种前进方式：不是通过制作旅行独家，而是通过使它可持续发展。Maybe, instead of trying to hit all the “must-see”, “bucket list”, “not-to-miss” spots along the way, we’ll zoom in on local and regional travel instead, discovering places and cultures truly off the beaten path. Maybe, while riding Peru, we’ll skip Machu Picchu altogether and explore该国的偏远地区反而。也许而不是做骨头的道路，我们可以继续远东探险反而。或者我们将通过以前没有想到的方式重新发现我们自己的国家和大陆，因为我们被发烧扫过进一步，更快，覆盖里程，而不是让自己更深入地体验世界。

Perhaps we’ll put adventure in “adventure riding” once again.