Countries Where Tourists Are No Longer Welcome

26. Bora Bora, French Polynesia: Paradise With Boundaries

Often marketed as the ultimate luxury escape, Bora Bora is beginning to grapple with the environmental and cultural cost of over-tourism. Local leaders have expressed concern about marine degradation, plastic pollution, and the disconnect between wealthy resorts and the native Tahitian community. Though outright restrictions are still evolving, there’s a rising push for eco-levies, visitor education, and limiting low-cost travel packages that dilute the region’s ecological carrying capacity. Bora Bora may soon move from exclusive in price to exclusive by principle.