In travel news this week: the world’s best and busiest airports, the European capital banning new hotels, the Hawaiian attraction being removed because of bad tourist behavior, plus the real-life animal crossing being built over a California freeway. Animals on the move Almost nothing stops Japan’s bullet trains – but this snake did when it went on a rampage through a passenger carriage .
Tourist hot spots feel the heat Amsterdam has taken the drastic step of banning new hotels in a bid to hold back the rising tide of overtourism in the much-visited Netherlands capital. It’s been actively working to discourage party-seekers who flock to the city for sex and drugs. Last week, locals in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago that sits off the coast of Africa, called for a hunger strike to protest the excessive tourism they say is pricing them out.