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Tourists may benefit some local business owners (or chains) while having a negative impact on many others.
Take a small fishing or farming village for example, now it becomes popular with tourists. House prices shoot up to what Londoners can afford and as they only use it as a holiday home it becomes a ghost town in winter.
It's almost like the "economy" has fuck-all to do with quality of life and a couple business owners getting rich isn't worth commodifying your home!
The cruise tourists benefit my life in no way. They come off the ship and buy a stupid shirt that says Canada on it from one of the Chinese owned gift shops then they go back onto the boat and dump sewage into my ocean.
Can't even go to tofino anymore as a local who literally subsidizes all that infrastructure with my tax dollars. Have to compete with the rest of the planet for campsites and can't even enjoy my own backyard anymore
Don't even get me started on the amount of literal human shit littered across the island at the end of summer
Nah fuck the tourists, nasty animals
For my town it isn't so much tourists, its the rich yuppies from the city showing up to my rural town to roleplay blue collar living by clogging up the only decent restaurants in town to day drink. Can barely get across town to pick up my niece from school without almost getting smoked by a BMW.
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Welcome to Duloc Such a perfect town Here we have some rules Let us lay them down
Don't make waves Stay in line And we'll get along fine Duloc is a perfect place
Keep your feet off the grass Shine your shoes Wipe your - face Duloc is, Duloc is Duloc is a perfect plaaaace....
Tourists when they enter a place: Clearly the whole economy is based on Tourism :)
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.
I wonder if you could get away with some kind of payment for locals in tourist heavy locations, like the Canary Islands are HEAVY tourist locations. Stick a tourist tax on hotels, holiday rentals etc. and a large property tax on villas owned by foreign companies and non-Spanish citizens, and then distribute that money to any local working and living on the islands as a flat "Dealing with the tourists" payment. Couple that with lower/no taxes for locals that are employed on the islands (not just those that own property and rent it out) and that might make things seem nicer for them.
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I vacationed in Venice last year and I had to wade my way through rivers of people, so I can understand the sentiment.
The irony.
the locals don’t want you there, the transplant white business owners and their pocketed politicians do
A city has tourism-based economy, because tourists go there. If they wouldn't go there the economy would be based on different stuff.