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Hot take but tourism economy is the best economy and best quality of life.
Tourism encourages the best values:
It's up to communities to learn to manage it but well managed tourist spot is legit one of the best place to be a human in. I lived in tourist towns almost all of my life and it's the best, especially in seasonal places where you have a low season vibe with communities just chilling and enjoying the rewards of high season.
The real issue stems from corruption where instead of managing this golden goose someone manages to squeeze all of the eggs to their own pocket and leave the rest unmaintained.
Tourism economy is the best economy, for the tourists and their white western touristy values, not the working exploited local class who gets priced out of their life by rich owners.
Rich owners get disproportionally richer by tourist money (by definition much more than the locals, because that's what makes tourism possible), and then the local economy bends around them.
"It's up to locals to learn to manage it well and not get corrupted" - my brother in Christ this is basic individualism and victim blaming in a trenchcoat. "Corruption" isn't a magical thing, it happens because of the proportionally obscene extra money in the pockets of the few.
It's basically this: tourism doesn't happen between equals, and the money of the richer tourists goes down the road all money does in capitalism. Concentrated further unless redistributed via politics, and politics bends to money over time.
If you live in tourist towns, as in going around exploring instead of having your future stolen and become nearly unable to both live and leave, you're part of the people rich enough to enjoy the benefits, whether you know it or not.
I'm a digital nomad in south east asia and I lived in villages, industrial towns etc and I can 100% say that locals have a much better life in tourist towns.
There's a reason tourist towns have so much immigration because people actually want to be there despite vocal minority raging on the internet - the stats don't lie.
Sure. Only, what you're saying reinforces what I said. Rich immigrants like you, from higher economic class, as well as rich locals and those capable of serving them, enjoy tourist towns. Duh.
No need to take into account those locals unable to work in those industries.
Nope I speak for the local pov of my friends not of my own. People legit dream to move to tourist areas here because life is legit better. You don't have to believe me, just google real data. Would you rather work in some unregulated factory or take tourists snorkeling? It's a no brainer.