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This is one of the aspects I like about the covid. The centre of my city without the herds of foreign tourists and infrastructure load, the folding of the prete
by ReptileMan 6y ago
This is one of the aspects I like about the covid. The centre of my city without the herds of foreign tourists and infrastructure load, the folding of the pretentious restaurants servicing them, the empty airports. My people exploring and having a holidays in their own country instead of visiting "greatest hits" in others. Everything is a lot calmer, there is space everywhere. The airbnb once more are converted to long term rentals.
Air travel probably got too cheap too fast. The world is not prepared for the jet set class to include too many.
- somewhereoutth 6y agoI concur. Tourism tends to benefit wealth holders more than wealth creators - providing easy returns to property owners but only minimum wage jobs to workers. Excessive tourism is arguably a resource curse, and I hope Southern European economies in particular take this opportunity to rebalance.
- jobigoud 6y agoDifferent experience here. I live in a touristy town on the south west coast of France, I've never seen so many people. It's very crowded. Granted it's the peak of the peak season right now but I think there's at least 1.2x the affluence of other years. AirBnBs and camp sites are packed. I've established a strategy to go grocery shopping based on the weekly rental patterns to lower exposure. Mask is mandatory in shops which is good and well respected.