You are making all kinds of emotional arguments but not addressing the topic of the discussion. This whole comment thread is about how cities can deal with the

You are making all kinds of emotional arguments but not addressing the topic of the discussion. This whole comment thread is about how cities can deal with the problems that come with an excess influx of tourists. These problems are real, no matter how romanticized the tourists' view of their trip was. In short, the destruction that massive tourism waves leave in their wake (to use an exaggerated analogy) is ultimately an externality to their action that needs to be paid by someone. Yes, modulo everything, paying more for things sucks. Paying for externalities that you are not used to paying probably sucks even more. Tourism is not special in that regard. But the problems caused by tourism to the locals also suck, and if one of the fixes for them is increasing taxes, then you can't argue it away by saying, effectively, "no! I don't want to pay more".