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Looks like overtourism is becoming an issue everywhere in the world. Yet another instance of the tragedy of the commons.
But a deeper underlying issue is the idea of real estate as investment. If you treat housing as an investment, of course renting to tourists is more profitable, therefore more of it will be dedicated to tourism.
Private equity needs to be reigned in all over the globe
I grew up in rural america in a tourist town. We hated the tourists. Wealthy. Arrogant. Rude. Unaware of local customs. Drove up rent and grocery prices.
But, at the end of the day, we were the only town within an hour radius that wasn't crumbling. All those vacation homes paid property taxes and the school system was great. There were jobs for people.
There are a lot of issues with unregulated tourism and immigration. But it's better to regulate the issues and keep up with fostering good job markets and building government controlled affordable housing instead of try and ban a chunk of your economy. Which, from this limited article, it seems like the government is trying to do.
There’s video of people spray painting things like ’kill a gringo’.
fucking based. reminds me of the rent-lowering gunshots meme
As a gringo, nice. I hope their housing prices go down.
My MIL and FIL were just down there visiting family and told me that they've built what are essentially giant walled off communities full of houses and businesses that are essentially their own independent cities where people never need to leave and security doesn't allow any unauthorized individuals inside.
I saw similar things when visiting a resort outside of Playa Del Carmen when we'd hired a local cab driver in Playa to take us around for the day and drop us off at the resort. Security checked us all for our passes but chilled out a little once they saw me (a gringo) in the taxi van with everyone else.