[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.