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I'd really love you to try and live in one of those cities. Not just spend some days there, but actually live there.
Housing prices, thanks to fucking airbnb are the highest of your country so buying a house is impossible, but even renting is nearly impossible because nobody wants to rent to a local when they can earn 3x or more by scamming tourists.
Want to work here? You either work in services (bars, restaurants, or other kind of touristic slavery) or need to look for work out of the city. You might be lucky enough to work in something that's not tourism related, but it's pure luck to find one.
The city centre? Yeah... Don't go there, you're not gonna find other than a tourist theme park. Tons of shops created exclusively with the tourist in mind and don't you dare trying to look for something to eat. All you'll find are tourist traps.
I've seen this city become the shithole it is today thanks to tourism.
And this is before considering the side effects.
The high real-estate prices and high cost of living mean high business costs and high personnel costs, so Tourism will actually push out or kill other Industries, even the kind that employs highly qualified people.
Choosing Tourism as the backbone of a country or city is choosing a 2nd World status of having a low value added Economy that employs only people with little or no specialization or formal Education (about 4 of years of high-school is enough to qualify for even a customer facing job in a non-English language country) - in other words, eternal mediocrity. That might be a dream come true if you're a dirt poor place whose only product is natural beauty and were people were just fishermen or doing subsistence agriculture, but for a 1st World nation betting on Tourism as a pillar of one's Economy is choosing to become worse rather than better.
To add insult to injury, Tourism is a highly variably industry prone to massive and very fast crashes - all it takes is some volcano to start spewing dust in the the athmosphere and stop flights, a Terrorist attack or just an Economic downturn and suddenly the number of tourists coming in collapse to near zero.
Or the Strait of Hormuz closing and jet fuel suddenly skyrocketing in price. According to someone I know who’s taking a flight to the UK next month, it’s really not clear if it’ll be affordable or possible for her to come back. Apparently a lot of flights have already been canceled.
Well spotted!
I hadn't noticed that incoming Tourism shitstorm yet.
Who knows, maybe house prices in Portugal won't go up 17% for two years in a row...
Yeah, but blame capitalism not tourists.
I once dealt with a hotel guest who was genuinely upset because shuttle service was suspended due to an active shooter across the street, and he had a tee time he was going to miss.
This is the sort of entitlement people in the service industry deal with every single day. I blame capitalism because it incentivizes this sort of behavior, but I do not absolve tourists.
People in the service industry have to deal with bad customers no matter if they are tourists or not. E.g. it's we'll known that Sunday after-church crowds are very rude and really bad tippers.
I'd say you shouldn't be a bad customer no matter where you interact with service personnel.
And similarly, it's known that tourists are shitty customers when compared with business travelers.
But not necessarily compared with locals. Of course that's only relevant when you don't work in a tourist oriented business.
You make a point. The person who thinks they can pay for a hotel room with a photo of someone else's credit card or wants to pay in cash in the morning after their stay. The guy who walks in at 12:01 in the morning and wants to stay 2 nights for the price of one because it's technically the next day. The guy who is there at 2am with a different sex worker every week and wants to rent by the hour. The guy who gets a single king standard room and thinks because we rented him a room, he gets to invite all his extended family around to have a party by the pool. Most bachelorette parties. Those are all locals.
On the other hand, every children's hockey team. Every spring breaker who drives drunk into your parking lot and refuses to believe that you're sold out. Every snowbird whose idea of socializing is demanding that you change hotel policy. Every middle aged racist in town for a fishing tourney who decides to talk politics because they see a captive audience to give them the attention their estranged family no longer will. Bachelorette parties for destination weddings. Those are all tourists.
Either is likely to sneak pets into their room, but the tourist is way more likely to expect you to buy that their yorkie (it's always a yorkie) is an "emotional support animal."
Haha yeah but you can be sure they try that shit where they live too.
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Tourists are annoying AF especially cause they don't know the local roads and they end up slowing down all traffic because of that. Fuck 'em. I just wanna get home after work in a timely manner, hate being stuck behind some ancient murican that doesn't know their way around town.
If it wasn't for tourists I would have nobody to sell Quokka eggs to.
this is the truth right here