Tourism represents 13% of Spain’s GDP. In France tourism represents 8% of the GDP and directly employs 2 million people.
Yeah, this anti-tourism thing is gonna hurt.
Apparently J*SSICA IS NOT FCKING WELCOME THERE. She’s a tourist.
Tourism is critical to the economies of many parts of Southern Europe. I think people don’t dislike tourism in itself, they dislike over-tourism, when the ratio of tourists to locals is so high that locals get squeezed out of their own places. So what they would like is a reduction in tourism, or a spreading out of tourism over a larger area, not a stop to tourism overall
The bad side of over tourism is real and needs to be solved. It’s the timing that’s weird. The simultaneous protests all over Europe are made possible because of social media. The profits of US tech giants took a big hit because the EU’s Digital Service Act. Now the European tourism industry will suffer because of ”spontaneous” protests that just happen to all boil over this year.
Airbnb + Housing shortage
Good. Tourism is the commodification of the entire planet and in itself completely insane. People will have to learn to curb the urge to mimic 18th century aristocrats and find less harmful ways of recreation.
This is happening everywhere, just some governments are actually taking precautions. Kyoto had to close off certain areas due to overtourism, plenty of cities are banning Airbnb, Venice added ticketing, more tourists are generally a good thing but you need the proper infrastructure rather than pretending what works for ten people is fine for a hundred
> “It’s becoming more and more difficult for locals, especially younger people, to have their own place,” he said.
Hate to break it to this dude, but it is the same across the developed world, regardless of tourism. Everyone wants to be in an urban center because most half-decent jobs in advanced economies require you to be near cities. Getting rid of tourists might provide temporary relief but doesn’t change the long term reality that rural areas are being depopulated in favor of cities.
> Officials in Venice have recently hailed a temporary entrance fee, designed to regulate tourist numbers, as a success.
This is a much better solution from officials than simply allowing these protests. Despite complaints about rising prices, most of southern Europe is still drastically cheaper than NYC, Toronto, San Francisco, and London, so the economic reality is that people are still going to come in large numbers until the economics start to balance out.
Tourism is one of the best industries an advanced economy can have; it is perennially popular, brings in foreign capital, and is self-perpetuating. To protest against it is incredibly short-sighted.
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Tourism represents 13% of Spain’s GDP. In France tourism represents 8% of the GDP and directly employs 2 million people.
Yeah, this anti-tourism thing is gonna hurt.
Apparently J*SSICA IS NOT FCKING WELCOME THERE. She’s a tourist.
Tourism is critical to the economies of many parts of Southern Europe. I think people don’t dislike tourism in itself, they dislike over-tourism, when the ratio of tourists to locals is so high that locals get squeezed out of their own places. So what they would like is a reduction in tourism, or a spreading out of tourism over a larger area, not a stop to tourism overall
The bad side of over tourism is real and needs to be solved. It’s the timing that’s weird. The simultaneous protests all over Europe are made possible because of social media. The profits of US tech giants took a big hit because the EU’s Digital Service Act. Now the European tourism industry will suffer because of ”spontaneous” protests that just happen to all boil over this year.
Airbnb + Housing shortage
Good. Tourism is the commodification of the entire planet and in itself completely insane. People will have to learn to curb the urge to mimic 18th century aristocrats and find less harmful ways of recreation.
This is happening everywhere, just some governments are actually taking precautions. Kyoto had to close off certain areas due to overtourism, plenty of cities are banning Airbnb, Venice added ticketing, more tourists are generally a good thing but you need the proper infrastructure rather than pretending what works for ten people is fine for a hundred
> “It’s becoming more and more difficult for locals, especially younger people, to have their own place,” he said.
Hate to break it to this dude, but it is the same across the developed world, regardless of tourism. Everyone wants to be in an urban center because most half-decent jobs in advanced economies require you to be near cities. Getting rid of tourists might provide temporary relief but doesn’t change the long term reality that rural areas are being depopulated in favor of cities.
> Officials in Venice have recently hailed a temporary entrance fee, designed to regulate tourist numbers, as a success.
This is a much better solution from officials than simply allowing these protests. Despite complaints about rising prices, most of southern Europe is still drastically cheaper than NYC, Toronto, San Francisco, and London, so the economic reality is that people are still going to come in large numbers until the economics start to balance out.
Tourism is one of the best industries an advanced economy can have; it is perennially popular, brings in foreign capital, and is self-perpetuating. To protest against it is incredibly short-sighted.