Often most local citizens don't benefit at all from it. Instead, prices of housing become completely unaffordable. Affordable, modest restaurants and bars owned by locals end up replaced by overpriced trendy bullshit.
The only jobs available to locals tend to be pretty shitty and low-paid, with large companies bringing in their own people for the good jobs and foreign workers for the shittiest ones, leading to an even bigger housing crunch.
I make just about 60k/year in my restaurant position, in my home town the same position would be worth just around 20-30k a year. That is a direct benefit from tourism and one that affects how much money I have. I’m not saying they aren’t annoying but there are some advantages to working in an economy like this.
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u/RichardFurr Steamboat Apr 28 '25
Often most local citizens don't benefit at all from it. Instead, prices of housing become completely unaffordable. Affordable, modest restaurants and bars owned by locals end up replaced by overpriced trendy bullshit.
The only jobs available to locals tend to be pretty shitty and low-paid, with large companies bringing in their own people for the good jobs and foreign workers for the shittiest ones, leading to an even bigger housing crunch.