“…The concept of carrying capacity, originally derived from defining the maximum populations of specific regions in agriculture, ecosystems, and biology, has been widely used in tourism since the 1960s, and it has been mentioned in relation to the growing debate on sustainability, most concerned with overtourism (Faulkner & Tideswell, 1997;Ballester, 2018;Coccossis & Mexa, 2017;UNWTO, 2018;Benner, 2019;Capocchi et al, 2019). UNWTO defines the carrying capacity of the tourist destination as "the maximum number of people that may visit a tourist destination at the same time, without causing destruction of the physical, economic and socio-cultural environment and an unacceptable decrease in the quality of visitors' satisfaction" (Koens, Postma, & Papp, 2018;Joshi & Dahal, 2019). It is also frequently used as an approach to the negative effects of tourism (Butler, 1999;Saarinen, 2006;Muler Gonzalez, Coromina, & Gali, 2018;Capocchi et al, 2019).…”