Blog - Murmuration

ICI 12/13 Midi-Pyrénées: programme of Tuesday 29 September 2026

France 3 Midi-Pyrénées' regional lunchtime news features Murmuration and the ECCT, its indicator that uses satellite data to measure the environmental safety margin of tourist destinations in the face of overtourism.

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29 September 2026

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How much tourism can nature withstand? This Toulouse company answers with satellite images

Ô Toulouse republishes Le Parisien's article: based in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Murmuration helps local authorities and tourism bodies fight overtourism using satellite images, by mapping the areas degraded by visitor numbers.

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27 August 2026

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How much tourism can nature withstand? This Toulouse company answers with satellite images

Founded in 2019 and based in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Murmuration helps public authorities fight overtourism using satellite images. Called on by local authorities and tourism bodies, it maps the areas degraded by visitor numbers and supports them in the measures to take.

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27 August 2026

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Toulouse: a start-up assesses the impact of mass tourism on our environment

The Toulouse start-up Murmuration is looking into the environmental challenges of mass tourism. Using satellite data, its ECCT tool measures the environmental safety margin of destinations to help them anticipate the degradation of their sites.

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26 August 2026

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Mass tourism and cities: what ecological footprint? Discover the innovation of a Toulouse start-up

How many visitors can a site welcome before it suffers lasting damage? Founded in 2019 by two space engineers, Murmuration turns Copernicus and CNES satellite data into dashboards: its ECCT tool helps cities and site managers measure their ecological footprint in the face of mass tourism.

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26 August 2026

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What if tourist destinations finally knew when their success turns into a risk?

A tourist territory is not just its commercial capacity: it is a living ecosystem with fragile balances. Already used by around ten clients in Europe, Murmuration's ECCT measures a destination's environmental safety margin before it reaches a critical threshold, and is now being rolled out in France and Spain.

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26 August 2026

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What is the environmental impact of mass tourism on cities? This Toulouse start-up is trying to measure it

How many visitors can a site welcome before it suffers lasting damage? Founded in 2019 by Cathy Sahuc and Tarek Habib, Murmuration is rolling out the ECCT in France and Spain, an indicator that combines Copernicus and CNES satellite data, field measurements and tourism statistics to measure the environmental safety margin of destinations.

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26 August 2026

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Attractiveness becomes an environmental risk

Visitors, overnight stays, revenue: these indicators are no longer enough to assess the situation of a destination facing high visitor numbers and growing environmental constraints. Murmuration is developing the ECCT to measure the environmental carrying capacity of territories and anticipate the risks linked to visitor numbers.

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25 August 2026

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A tool to anticipate and manage overtourism

Murmuration is rolling out the ECCT in France and Spain to measure a destination's environmental safety margin before it reaches a critical degradation threshold, and to help managers decide where to invest, what to promote and which sites to preserve.

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25 August 2026

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Overtourism: time to close?

How many visitors can a territory welcome before its success starts to destroy it? Water, biodiversity, vegetation, air quality, tourism pressure: Murmuration's indicator identifies the areas to preserve, those to invest in and those that should no longer be promoted, and raises a question destinations rarely face: should they sometimes plan for fewer visitors?

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13 August 2026

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