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 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.

I vacationed in Venice last year and I had to wade my way through rivers of people, so I can understand the sentiment.

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

Welcome to Amsterdam! They think they are such elitists, they actually think Amsterdam is the centre of the universe and they’re are disgusted by anything else. But also they focus on tourism. But they hate tourists.

The rest of The Netherlands prefers if Amsterdam became an island with no connection to the mainland, to both keep the tourists and the Amsterdammers there. They can have Urk too.

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

NIMBY are the worst.

I once stayed in a long stay and everywhere I went staff would be complaining about long stays. Meanwhile the population was like 3 people and given their location their town could never survive without long stays holding it up. Like we are talking that their resorts had to refit to do BNB long stay or close down. That was their only option to survive. You could clearly see they Overbuilt.

Like ok…we could leave if you really don’t want us there . But so will all your amenities and your jobs… the very amenities and jobs that are only there because we’re bringing you the money to have them.

Pick a lane.

I’d say most employees feel that way about customers, tourist or not. Dealing with the general populace just eats away at your soul

Almost all of the places I have lived have been tourism heavy.

• French Quarter, New Orleans
• Park City, Utah
• Kissimmee, Florida (Disney)
• Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Austin, Texas (not at first, but definitely the later years)
• Destin, Florida

There is one recurring theme. People on vacation are stressed the fuck out, desperate to enjoy their very limited and probably very expensive time off, and impatient. This makes many of them rude and entitled. Many people forget to bring their common sense and their manners when they go on vacation. They also have a propensity to binge on everything including food, entertainment, and especially booze and/or drugs. Locals are under no obligation to take your shit just because you are blowing $10k on a week or weekend vacation (of which you only get two of per year) with the family, and you are having an existential crisis that you hope your expensive vacation might remedy. Some of us are just trying to get a coffee on the way to our daily grind and you have decided to let your kids sample every flavor of ice cream in the shop before only buying a single scoop. If you see people waiting, be nice and offer to let someone else get their order in while your kids make up their minds. It is common courtesy.

And? Reasonably so. Tourists are annoying af

For my town it isn’t so much tourists, its the rich yuppies from the city showing up to my rural town to roleplay blue collar living by clogging up the only decent restaurants in town to day drink. Can barely get across town to pick up my niece from school without almost getting smoked by a BMW.

Having experienced life in a city with a heavy tourism influence, it’s not the tourists that’s the problem, it’s counterintuitively a select few locals ripping the arse out of it.

• Housing shortages and sky high rents because homeowners and flat owners stick their places on AirBNB and other types of peer to peer services they provide access to;

• Ludicrous policies imposed on residents by locally-contracted private enterprises like event managers extending their road closures and parking suspensions a quarter mile away from their actual event areas, fucking over residents who actually live there for the other eleven months of the year;

• Zero hour contracts for those in gig economy or service workers, who get used and abused for a few weeks a year and fucked off when the good times dry up, while business owners have made bank;

• Increased pressure on public services for a few weeks a year, caused by influxes of folk putting heavy demands on the staff but leaving local residents to foot the tax bill;

• …and the usual creep towards city centre locations trending towards tat merchants selling utter shite.

It’s important to note that none of the above is anything wrong, it’s just assholery for the most part…

…and then those small numbers of “locals” have the gall to blame Mr and Mrs Miggins from halfway across the globe for ruining the city. Fuck all of the way off

Who is economy?

This is basically Japan right now.

whose*