You will have to get up early to access this little corner of paradise. The island of Porquerolles, in the Var, now limits the number of daily tourists to 6,000 per day. “Setting up a regulatory system to curb these peaks of over-frequentation is a common objective pursued by the municipality of Hyères, the Toulon Provence Méditerranée metropolis, the Port-Cros National Park”, explain the three institutions in a press release published Tuesday.
Thus the public transport delegatee will not be able to transport more than 4,000 travelers per day over the twenty or so days of the summer when the peaks are concentrated. The boatmen companies, for their part, undertake a concerted action to limit the tonnage to 2,000 people / day.
A respectful mooring area will be set up
The park is also considering the development within 18 months of a mooring area respectful of Posidonia, an endemic plant of the Mediterranean essential to the marine ecosystem: “We can sometimes count more than 2,000 boats that anchor their anchor in the herbarium. of posidonia and contribute to the erosion of this particularly fragile and not very resilient environment. “
Recurring problem, amplified last summer by the health situation, the overcrowding of the Mediterranean coast worries. The nearby Calanques National Park has also taken a series of measures to try to regulate attendance but without setting quotas.