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Tourism is fucking awesome - it connects people from different worlds, connects economies and opens up niche areas like cultural preservation and ecology. It also provides flexibility and seasonal work for entire extended area giving people opportunities to temporarily relocate or migrate long term.
Tourism is the best - don't listen to the angry entitled boomers.
Edit: alt right propaganda eating people's brains huh don't travel, be afraid, they'll eat your dogs yadayada
Old women get thrown out of their homes so they can be rented to tourists, you know.
He knows. He considers homelessness to be a public good.
Landlords throw old lady's out of their homes, not tourists. Its always possible to build a shitton of housing like China, but then landlords would make less money.
Conflating two entirely different issues
No, one is the result of the other.
You're either a troll or a moron.
Bye.
If you're a tourist.
Nope grew up and still live in a tourist town. The opportunity and cultural exchange of a big city in a small town is awesome - that's how the world should be. If everyone was more accepting and mobile we'd have less hate, cruelty and misery in the world. Connection is the key not isolation.
Don't like it? Just be rich! Just be able to afford travel, then all the people who abuse you at work don't exist!
Nah travel is not that expensive and economic activity and connection makes everyone richer, literally. Don't be a whiny loser and live a bit.
Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford the luxuries you take for granted.
It's a myth that travel is expensive but if thats the case the ethics of tourism is the least of your worries.
Talk to some of the people who are paid to put up with you sometime. Ask them when the last time they had a vacation was. Ask them if they can afford to see a doctor. Ask them if they have insurance, a car, stable housing. And then tell them how great it is that travel is cheap and watch their eyes.
Yeah, the cost of travel is the least of my worries, because I actually have worries. And I don't need some privileged asshole telling me that.
Bali, like a month ago.
She's vietnamese, healthcare is so cheap there, and I think she qualifies for some level of national insurance.
She has a CB1000 with a bluecard, somehow. Which is insane in vietnam for so many reasons.
Yes.
This is atypical, for every person like hers in Hanoi, there's a situation like Sa Pa where 100K wealthier people moved in from other parts of vietnam, bought up the tourist land, and pretend to be local, while a good portion of the locals found making their kids beg is more profitable than anything else, and due to autonomy the government only seems to have power to stop this during school hours/nights.
So it proves nothing. But you'll still use it to justify an industry based on exploitation.
The industry itself isn't exploitative, but it causes a minority of locals to accumulate capital, which may be used to capture even more of the tourism income, creating the situation you describe where they might choose to kick grandma out of her home for profit.
But this isn't universal. Plenty of places have strong communities that resist the natural tendency of capitalism at this scale.
First of all, ALL industry is exploitative. Second, tell me you've never worked in a hotel without saying you've never worked in a hotel.
Industry isn't inherently exploitative wtf, it's just capitalism that makes it so.
Then until we get a non-exploitative economic system, you can stop pretending that the tourism industry isn't exploitative.
When I'm riding my bike across vietnam or taking trains across China and sleeping in hostels/hotels, some of which the owner's family literally lives in or down the street from, who is being exploited? Not every place handles tourism the same.
When someone works full time at a hotel in the United States and cannot afford to live, you are FUCKING DELIGHTED that they're being exploited. Stop using your gap year to justify exploitation, tourist.
Bro I worked full time in the US and couldn't afford to live, that's why I left. What you're describing is specific to certain locations, not tourism as a concept.
And yet you cannot understand why some people who are exploited within a system that encourages entitled behavior might not like tourists very much.
Glad you had a good experience, tourist.
I can understand why you might not like tourists in your town, where their money goes to the people who are exploiting you, furthering their ability to do so, but that's because your town is ruled by bourgeoisie tyrants. I also understand why that's dumb, because the problem isn't the tourists or tourism. It's specific to your local area's inability to control your bourgeoisie.
I understand that you think I deserve to be exploited.
Nothing I've said suggests I think exploitation due to capitalism is just. I feel like you're not even listening to me.
I feel like you're so enamored with tourism that you don't care who it hurts and are willing to blame exploitation on the exploited if that's what it takes to avoid introspection.
I have pointed out, in nearly every post on the subject, that the blame lies with the landlords and bourgeois.
And the inability of the powerless to control them.
This depends on the specific location. Nobody is being exploited if I stay in some hostel or an hotel in a place with so much housing availability rent is <300USD.
[Citation fucking needed]
Traveled with nothing but a laptop and 500 usd per month around the world (while working too) but sure stay at home blame someone else for your failures.
What this guy considers cheap.
Holy shit dude, even assuming that's a true story you seriously don't recognize how much money $500/month is or how privileged you were to be able to work remote while traveling??
Yet majority of people buy a new truck rather than a plane ticket. Just look up real statistics where majority of people don't leave their town yet alone travel abroad and instead buy a new truck.
Traveling has never been as accessible as it is today, period.
A: I would like to know what kind of truck costs the same as a plane ticket...
B: Sure it may be more accessible, but accessible does not mean cheap
A: so they can buy 100 plane tickets yet stay at home using their new truck to drive to fast food drive through instead.
B: it's the cheapest it has ever been. Not sure what else you want here? Somebody to pay you and hand hold you everywhere? Like get a grip on life at least a little bit, take the fruits the universe gives you instead of whining.
... Fucking hell this is entitled. Are you serious with this? You cannot be this out of touch. "Why do people buy LUXURY CARS instead of TRAVELING they just need to get a GRIP" do you really not see an issue with that reasoning?
People absolutely spend money on luxuries that aren't traveling. Traveling is less popular per usd spent than other luxuries since covid still as people are just more content with local entertainment. Most people don't even leave their town let alone their country. Look up the stats, I dare you. Bye.
So you DO agree that travel is a luxury. Glad we could establish that finally.
Having jobs that require us to appear in-person makes us failures?
I work with children, itās not like I can bring them with me to travel. Itās not a typical school either, itās for autistic preschoolers and incorporates several types of therapy along with school-readiness for the older kids. Because of the medical aspects, we donāt have summer/spring/winter breaks, which could make the therapy less effective.
āBut sure,ā stay up on your high horse. Look at you, so much better than those of us who need to be in particular places in order to do our jobs. Weāre all such losers for contributing to society in a different way. Weird, I thought travel was supposed to open peopleās minds to different ways of living?
Damn the lack of self awareness. All that traveling to learn so little. Pretty much a wannabe billionaire. Just about there in personality. Not there in income. Supposed growth induced from travel but just sounding like a colonist with the lack of empathy and understanding of other people. You don't sound any more than a taker
Citation needed.
Seasonal work pushes out other forms of employment. In my hometown, 50% of businesses are closed for 6 to 9 months of the year and basic necessities are overpriced by a major factor because of the tourists. You can literally drive over the bridges into the area and the price of gas drops 30 cents a gallon. It's called the Bridge Tax. Half of the housing or more is summer homes that are vacant most of the year when they aren't being rented out as short-term rentals like the 70% of all rental property. Rates of addiction and homelessness in the surrounding area are the highest in the state, and this is in a state where the capital city has a street literally called Methadone Mile. Outside of the tourist season there just isn't really anything to do except drink, and the infrastructure isn't built for the number of people during the tourist season, which makes it difficult for locals to do anything without dealing with major traffic. The tourists are also a major source of party drugs in the area. There are two major industries in the area: retirement homes and the service industry. So unless you're a nurse or similar profession, or are content to work mostly seasonal jobs at near minimum wage, there is little opportunity. There just isn't enough real estate for other businesses, and the real estate is largely too expensive anyway compared to locations a few hours away. It works out well for the migrant workers who come to work the service industry during the tourist season, but that just makes it even harder for locals to find a job. The locals have a saying: "Too poor to move, can't afford to stay."
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Social Impacts of Tourism Perceived by Host Communities ā A Review Paper (2021) Finds that tourism promotes cultural exchange, social cohesion, and improved public services. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357139679_Social_Impacts_of_Tourism_Perceived_by_Host_Communities_-_A_Review_Paper
The Economic and Social Impacts of Ecotourism on Local Employment and Income (2025) Case study showing ecotourism boosts jobs and income in rural areas while supporting sustainability. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780225000101
Tourism and Its Socio-Economic Impacts on Local Communities Demonstrates that tourism stimulates small businesses, improves infrastructure, and raises living standards. https://www.researchpublish.com/upload/book/Tourism%20and%20Its%20Socio-Economic-2434.pdf
The Role and Impact of Tourism on Local Economic Development Comparative study showing tourism contributes to GDP growth and helps reduce poverty. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287645318_The_role_and_impact_of_tourism_on_local_economic_development_A_comparative_study
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Role of Tourism in Sustainable Development (Oxford Research Encyclopedia) Explains how sustainable tourism supports economic growth, poverty reduction, and environmental conservation. https://oxfordre.com/environmentalscience/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389414-e-387
I'm sorry that your town is struggling but the evidence on grand scale of things really disagrees wirh you. Just because you found a hair in your soup doesn't mean the whole pot is to be thrown out.
Niche, you say?