A wave of anti-tourism protests occurred throughout Europe over the weekend as locals grew weary of tourists in their country ...

Newly released footage showed a tourist destroying a piece of art in an Italian museum by sitting on it before fleeing the ...

The U.S. State Department is warning travelers to exercise more caution when traveling to Europe amid a renewed wave of ...

Security footage from the museum shows a man and a woman taking pictures while pretending to sit on Nicola Bolla's "Van Gogh" ...

Anti-mass tourism campaigners say excessive levels of visitors in southern Europe are forcing locals out of affordable ...

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.

Over the weekend, many anti-tourism protests broke out in major European cities such as Barcelona, Venice, Lisbon, Genoa and Malaga by local residents.

The incident unfolded when a museum guard stepped out of the room, and a couple began clicking photos near the piece of art.

An art exhibit at Palazzo Maffei in Italy – a chair woven together using Swarovski crystals and foil – was damaged when museum visitors pretended to sit on it for photos.

The couple, who was not identified, fled the scene at the Palazzo Maffei museum in Italy after the chair broke. See the video.