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Tackling over-tourism is very similar to Brexit: you want to stop those ugly, stinking foreigners from coming and soiling your place. If only they just kept sen

• Piskvorrr 8y ago
  Only if you treat "tourist/local" as binary (and in your specific case, also conflating "foreigner+tourist"); the problem exists mostly at the extreme end of the continuum - "check it off the bucket list, immediately move on." Wrote a few more words on this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875576
• SomebodyIsWrong 8y ago
  > you want to stop those ugly, stinking foreigners from coming and soiling your place. If only they just kept sending you the money... It's always the money, isn't it? Why, oh why, can't we just do what's right for once?