Your problem isn’t tourists. Tourists bring money into your businesses and create jobs for your economy. The problem is shit like AirBnB, no empty housing tax, and no incentives to build new housing. Point those water pistols at your policymakers and get your housing laws changed.
A city without locals becomes a theme park. Is this the tourists fault? No.
Now to fix this one needs local action with local authorities, limit short term rentals, tax them higher when empty and do like parisians, these taxes go to subsidies on local craftsman and people who give life to the city to live within the city.
Yup. If you’ve ever lived in or near a tourist destination then you can probably understand why these people are upset.
People are getting ousted from their homes (usually gradually but sometimes abruptly too) in favour of people that don’t even live there. It may be as small as a tourist trap displacing a local neighbourhood or as big as short-term rentals and a tourism economy pushing out the lower classes in an entire city.
At least some of the protestors know it’s the fault of companies like airbnb and similar, and are advocating for restricting them(which is already in the works and was announced last month). They mostly want to limit the amount of private residences being rented out to tourists, to get more reasonable number of visitors.
The ones running around with water pistols and blaming most things on tourists, don’t understand very basic economics. Because while cutting off most tourism might indeed lower housing cost quite a bit. It will also massively lower the demand for jobs, salaries will plummet, etc., because so much of their local economy is tied to tourism. So relatively speaking many wont notice a big difference in percentage of salary spent on housing, if they block most tourism.
Tourists don’t necessarily bring that much money to the local economy. Most of the money will be spent on accommodation, which often belongs to people outside the local economy.
I have never understood the concept of paying loads of money to go somewhere chock full of other people on my precious spare time. So, they want no tourists? Alright then, I’ll support their cause by continuing with my policy of spending my vacations around home.
Honestly fuck these people. They should ban all of these cunts harassing tourists from ever leaving their city. If they’re so against tourism, then they shouldn’t be allowed to be tourists themselves.
If they have a problem with housing go attack politicians and the rich fucks who abuse the system and make the policies, not the tourists who probably have no idea what’s going on and are just there visiting.
unhinged reaction mate
not the tourists who probably have no idea what’s going on and are just there visiting.
Then they are bad tourists for not checking the state of their destination