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Back packers are a similar category. They live in hostels and spend minimum amount on tourism. They are still tourists by every definition of the word.
by devoply 10y ago
Back packers are a similar category. They live in hostels and spend minimum amount on tourism. They are still tourists by every definition of the word.
- ska 10y agoObviously - that's what I meant about a "net positive". It's reasonable to expect you can find individual tourists who use more in infrastructure than they contribute to the local economy - the system doesn't break down so long as the average case means overall it is significantly net positive. If "digital nomads" are net negative, then I expect you'll see eventually constraints arise. Assuming long enough for a) local governments to figure this out and b) that it's a big enough impact to care about. It's also plausible that "digital nomads" remain such a small number of people that nobody is really fussed about the impact, and the legalities of what they are doing remaining fuzzy is only used as a justification to refuse visa/entry to anyone who has proved annoying to the people who issue same.