The question is not whether to welcome visitors, but how many a fragile town can host.

The answer is not fewer visitors but better-managed ones — and a say for the people who actually live here.

What happens next

The hill states have no shortage of plans on paper. What they need is discipline in execution and honesty about the carrying capacity of fragile towns.

Tourism is a blessing and a burden: it brings livelihoods, and with them traffic, waste and construction on slopes that were never meant to carry it.