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The problem is usually wealth inequality. The residents have to compete with the tourists for resources, but most of what they could get in return gets gobbled up by late stage capitalism. Most people who have a direct relation to tourism to how it benefits them in their lives have no problem with it.
I remember talking to an ice-cream seller in Egypt and he asked me what I do for a living. When I told him I was an engineer he said ‘so am I’. The predatory behaviour of Egyptian street sellers made more sense after that exchange but it never stopped grating. I think the best way deal with it is engage with the people in a friendly way and have a laugh. Most of the time people just need acknowledgement, that goes a long way.
usually.
but
let me introduce you to the native People of the southmost part of Bavaria/Germany … almost Austria.
Example: A Boat-Person of the Beautiful Königssee spent almost all of the ride ranting about stupid dumb dumb tourists… .to tourists. the rants were only interrupted by short lacklustre descriptions of the beautiful nature and rich history… and a forgetable music stop with agressive tip fishing.
Now, this was off season and in german. Well, german - a non native speaker would likely struggle to understand his thick accent liberally spiced with words only they use. Half the people on board have no idea what the angry noise is about. The others don’t complain, they know: yes, this is a perfect example specimen. This is what the average local is like. this man is not rich probably, no, but certainly well off, safe, living surrounded by breathtaking nature and beauty…
And he hates everybody else with every fibre of their being.
I’ve met several people from this specifc small region, which is one of the most beautiful places in the world, who were exactly like this.
maybe their point is to protect this environment. every stranger is a potential danger to it, they dont want to risk. if they value the protection of nature over their livelihood, it can almost be seen as noble. just don’t ask them what they vote for
Most of those places were doing just fine before becoming tourist destinations. This “economy” you speak of is just the profit margins of hotel chains. It very seldom benefits the people living there.
No, no suelte’ la bandera ni olvide’ el lelolai, que no quiero que hagan contigo lo que le pasó a Hawái
But now that they’ve let it into their economy, it has grown like a parasite the type of which cannot be removed without also killing the host.
Would you look at a parasite any other way?
I think you can safely remove most parasites, if that’s what you mean?
I’m saying the parasite analogy only cements why locals hate tourists.
Ah, ok. Yeah.
If it was symbiotic, it wouldn’t be called a parasite, typically, so yeah.It’s not good, but also it’s too late to do anything about it.
That’s because tourism heavy economies have a tendency to screw over low income locals to favor high income tourists.
Whoever made this meme doesn’t live in a city where new houses are bought up to be turned into shitty airbnbs
I live in a tourist heavy place. My biggest issue is that the influx of tourists is seasonal. During the summer, the number of tourists brings the infrastructure to knees and shops, restaurants and cafés are uncomfortably full. During the off season, maintenance of the roads serms to be of low priority and a lot of the shops, restaurants and cafés reduce their opening time or even close, and the town center becomes a ghost town.
So no hate towards tourists, but the inconsistency of this place is very annoying.
It does definitely show just how much the local businesses rely on this kind of income
See also:
- locals who live in a college town every time they see a student
- locals who live near an international airport every time a plane flys over
- locals who live near a military base every time something goes boom
- locals who live near pretty much any industry town every time anything from that industry annoys them
Its weird with military bases. I used to work on one and got regular emails about scheduled EOD explosions, and somehow i never heard a single one.
It is possible they were there before the base is built so they do have a reason to complain.
But if they are complaining while benefitting from it(better access to amenities as a result) then yeah, they really need to be more realistic about their expectations and how the world works.
Also:
- People move near a racetrack.
- People complain about the racetrack.
- Racetrack gets shut down.
- People complain about all of the lunatics racing on public roads.
Tourists when they enter a place: Clearly the whole economy is based on Tourism :)
Yeah, we don’t like them.
Tourist Town is what happens after your community has been bankrupted and stripped for parts
No shit people are resentful
Not the tourists’ fault, and hating on them demonstrates a lack of civic pride and not much else. I welcome tourists who come to my city for its niche history and the historic mall and the foofy shops who wouldn’t be in business without them.
And? Reasonably so. Tourists are annoying af
If your entire economy is based on tourism, and you want to get rid of the tourists, you are saying that you really want to get rid of your own job. Not usually a wise decision.
yeah, it’s awesome to live and work in a town and have to rent a temporary place for 3 months in summer cuz your’re priced out of your normal home, and it was rented in advance by tourist paying 4 times normal rent value
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I grew up, and live in a tourist destination. My highschool was trash. Tourists are a nuisance. We have a few big events in town yearly that bring an insane amount of people here and most locals just hide in their house for a week at a time. I would leave but it has the only weather I like. I make really good money(well over 100k) in a non tourist job and can’t afford to buy here.
I fully undetstand the housing problem. Especially with services like airbnb making many apartments unavailable to rent for the locals, but i cant but think how many people make their living from the tourism. For example Hawaii Tourism Authority calculated that visitor spending in August was over 800 million. That means pretty many family got their bread from tourism.
Whose
That’s my job but thanks
fucking thank you
A city has tourism-based economy, because tourists go there. If they wouldn’t go there the economy would be based on different stuff.
You say that, but then there’s the coastal towns in the UK that used to get all their money from tourism, then tourism dried up and now they’re all shitholes because there’s nothing else going on there.
They were shitholes outside of the tourist season anyway. As somebody who grew up in a similar town across the pond, tourism competes with and pushes out all other industries. Tourist towns have the highest rates of poverty, homelessness, and addiction in the area.
There’s a town here where up to 80% of the housing is seasonal. There are about 1,000 year-round residents, and the town can see up to 60,000 people at the height of the summer tourist season. During the rest of the year, there are like 3 stores that stay open to service the locals, everything else closes for the next 9 months. They don’t even have a local school system because there’s not enough kids to make it worth it, so the kids have to be bussed to other towns for school. Not that the people who own summer homes would allow for their tax money to go towards something like that anyway. That would drive up their property taxes!
Sometimes that’s true, but often it is true that there simply would not be an economy otherwise. And instead would be rampant poverty.
I used to live in a Northern Wisconsin town almost entirely comprised of tourism and snow birds for an economy from May to September. Most were people from Chicago and Milwaukee that moved “a little too fast” for someone who lived in the area, so they were easy to spot.
Once school started up, the place was an absolute ghost town. All of downtown completely shut down except one bar. The hotels either shuttered during the winter or operated a single floor of rooms. The population would drop by ~80%.
I loved living in The Great Northwoods of WI, as it’s absolutely gorgeous up there half the year, but I don’t miss standing at the bus stop when it’s -40F wind chills or shovelling out my car to drive somewhere.
Stargazing was incredible in the winter, though.
