The little town of Hallstatt in the Austrian Alps has become a tourism hotspot. The World Heritage Site has fewer than 800 inhabitants – but gets a million tourists every year. The BBC’s Bethany Bell reports on how Hallstatt is coping with the number of visitors.
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