[techsupporter]

> If you arrive by boat, you must use public transport (or good old feet) to get around.

As someone who lives in a city that's popular with tourists and has a major summer cruise industry, that's...not entirely accurate. A lot of tourists exit the boat and head straight for a line of taxis and app-based gig workers. This results in a staggering amount of added car traffic. The city has tried adding tourist-focused bus routes and branded shuttles but rail bias is a major thing in tourism.

> I am putting money in to the local economy. I do not use international chain (except Ikea in Sweden - meat balls). Local worker in local shops.

I understand that it feels like this and maybe it is true to a limited extent, but when an area becomes dominated by tourism, tourist-focused industries take over and shops and services that cater to longer-term residents are pushed out.

CityBeautiful has an insightful video on this happening in Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClC9TtQlco

[bmsleight_]

>CityBeautiful has an insightful video on this happening in Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClC9TtQlco

Good video - thanks.

>area becomes dominated by tourism

Good point - make me thinks. How to a be a better customer and stop cruise ports becoming over dominating. Give-up cruising ? Be more selective of which ports.

South-west England is becoming like this (I travelled by sleeper train) and feel like tourists dominate locals. So dont like going there.

Do ethical holiday exist ?

[jt2190]

The complaints here make it sound like the tourists hold all the power and the locales are helpless to stop them, but the reality is that tourism is two-sided: Locales actively try to attract tourists, and tourists decide to visit.

If the locals hate the tourist dollars so much they could close down their tourist attractions. That they don’t speaks volumes: They definitely want the tourist dollars.

So visit away, and trust that the locals have lots of options (including tourist taxes) if they really want to curb visitors.

[PeterStuer]

It's the law of concentrated profits vs distributed downsides. The few that benefit have the resources and incentives to lobby (by all means, both above and below board), without the need for complex organisation, while the widely distributed downsides might be in aggregate worse so societally there is a net negative, but they would have to overcome the hurdles of a huge organizing effort to get to the same effective action because the individual incentives and resources are relatively low per capita compared to those of the former group.

This asymmetry lies at the heart of many net negative societal problems.

[jemmyw]

Some locals. Even if the majority of locals want to stop it getting action is very difficult against a business friendly central government.