By Doyinsola Oladipo and Joanna Plucinska NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Airfares from Europe to the United States have dropped to rates not seen since before the pandemic, as travelers from Western Europe lead a pullback in travel to the U.

The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, temporarily shut down today due to a spontaneous strike by the museum staff citing mass tourism. This comes one day after anti-tourist protests erupted across a dozen European cities.

Residents in Barcelona, Spain, and several other popular European destinations say tourism in their cities is driving up housing costs for locals.

People in some of Europe's biggest cities are protesting the surge of tourists from the U.S. and other countries. Workers at Frances' Louvre museum suddenly went on strike Monday, while in Spain, demonstrators rallied for a reduction in visitors and criticized skyrocketing housing prices.

Barcelona is now creating a new 'zone' strategy after crowds of eager tourists put themselves in danger to compete with an emerging TikTok trend

In Italy, Portugal and Spain, activists used water pistols and a “noisy stroll” of suitcases to draw attention to rising housing costs and the environmental toll of tourism.

Have you been planning your dream trip to Europe? Have you been spending your days picking and choosing what countries to visit and how to navigate them? Then you already know it’s not like traveling in one big country.

The Mediterranean as a whole is warming up faster than the global average, while many cities and islands in Greece record numerous days each summer where the mercury tips over the 40C mark

Sky News host Caleb Bond claims Europeans are going “troppo” over the amount of tourists flocking to the continent for summer.