A beach in Cornwall has been named among the top ten busiest in Europe.
It is among four in the UK that have made the list.
Fistral Beach in Newquay is seventh in the top ten list.
It has been compiled by travel website The Thinking Traveller, which analysed Tripadvisor reviews, filtering by keywords and phrases linked to overcrowding, such as “too busy”.
Each location was filtered for mentions of the words ‘busy’ and ‘crowded,’ and were combined to determine which spots had the most mentions.
Fistral had 403 mentions, while the beach topping the list, Elafonissi Beach in Crete, Greece, had 940 mentions.
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Elsewhere in the UK, Bournemouth's famous seaside came second with 796 mentions.
Dorset appears twice in the top ten list of beaches, with Lulworth Cove and Door also featuring.
Woolacombe Beach in Devon was the final UK beach to make the list.
Here are Europe’s top ten busiest beaches, according to The Thinking Traveller analysis:
- Elafonissi Beach Crete, Greece 940
- Bournemouth Beach Bournemouth, England 764
- Fig Tree Bay Protaros, Cyprus 696
- Playa de la Barceloneta Barcelona, Spain 667
- Navagio Beach (shipwreck beach) Zakynthos, Greece 640
- Playa de Levante Alicante, Spain 576
- Fistral Beach Newquay, Cornwall 403
- Woolacombe Beach Devon, England 386
- Red Beach Santorini, Italy 385
- Lulworth Cove and Door Dorset, England 379
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