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!
A city has tourism-based economy, because tourists go there. If they wouldn’t go there the economy would be based on different stuff.
Sometimes that’s true, but often it is true that there simply would not be an economy otherwise. And instead would be rampant poverty.
Often times these tourist cities are much richer than the manual labour cities though.
Now if we’re talking about big cities, it’s mixed economies anyway and tourism will be part of it anyway, but it might not dominate.
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!