This probably has direct implications for Mediterranean countries as well. UK tourists are a significant money source.

FridayoLeary 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

otoh it's probably great for internal tourism. We get to keep more money in the country.

Who do you think spends more? Your neighbor vacationing a few hours away from home? Or that international visitor who wants to see everything they can in their one week in the country?

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whatever1 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends. If they arrive in an RV and just do one grocery run in a German chain during the their entire month of vacay, we could skip them.

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malfist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd like to know more about this RV that can store an entire month of food. Sounds pretty fancy.

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		You can’t find a spot for a 50 pound sack of rice or two?

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somewhereoutth 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right, however over-tourism is a real problem.

Tourism provides low quality, transitory jobs, with income flowing more to wealth holders (property owners etc) than to wealth creators. It distorts property markets and sucks the oxygen out of other kinds of business. About time the Med weaned itself off of it.

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jzb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This doesn’t sound like they’ll be weaning off it, though: it’ll be cold turkey. That’s going to let wealth holders pick up more property at depressed prices and drive down wages.

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bawolff 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Relative to what? Its certainly better than resource extraction (oil).

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anamexis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The obvious question is, what jobs will replace them?

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cucumber3732842 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Tourism provides low quality, transitory jobs, with income flowing more to wealth holders (property owners etc) than to wealth creators

No. It's worse than that. The transient customer base rewards the worst people. The people who make the most money and have the most influence are basically scammers who manage to stay one season ahead of the bad reviews. They're screwing customers, shafting suppliers, employees, business partners, etc, everybody. By the time the 1-star reviews are pouring in they've pivoted, sold the businesses, under new management, etc, etc, and are on to the next venture.

So over time these people get rich you basically wind up with these sorts of people running everything including the government and it's all just shit.

And it permeates everything. Everyone starts screwing everyone and being scummy by default. And the time and money and effort of having to hedge against in literally everything makes everyone all substantially poorer

Source: Grew up in it. First world white people too, so spare me some patronizing BS about low trust societies or whatever