Icelandic tourism has gone through the roof (and that's not necessarily a good thing)

Yesterday I read in a Belgian newspaper that Icelandic tourism has gone through the roof and that this is not necessarily a good thing. To illustrate the statement the journalist had selected a couple of pictures of an overcrowded Blue Lagoon, the famous geothermal spa in the proximity of Reykjavik. Research learned that tourism now accounts for a whopping 34 percent of Iceland’s export revenue, nearly twice the amount that it did in 2010. After the economic collapse followed by a prolonged volcanic disruption, Iceland has certainly welcomed the influx of tourists but it has become too much of a good thing… It reminded me of a trip I made to that very same spa in September 2013. Cleary, things have changed and not necessarily for the better – Blue Lagoon, Iceland.