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Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this seems like the crucial question. Even here in New Zealand we have experienced a huge tourism boom (pre-Covid) over t
by vosper 6y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this seems like the crucial question. Even here in New Zealand we have experienced a huge tourism boom (pre-Covid) over the past 15 years. For most people getting here meant taking one or more really long-haul flights. It didn't seem to put a whole lot of people off: we had 3.7m tourist arrivals in 2017, without supersonic jets. Our population is only 5m.
(On a personal level I hope there isn't a market of even more people who want to come here who'll be enabled by greatly shorter flight times. We had more than enough tourists already, TYVM. But economically, we won't be able to resist because jobs)
- jdminhbg 6y ago> It didn't seem to put a whole lot of people off: we had 3.7m tourist arrivals in 2017, without supersonic jets. Our population is only 5m. I think you might underestimate how many people would visit if the long-haul flights weren't an obstacle. Pre-covid Iceland, easily reachable from Europe and the NE US, had over 1M arrivals on a population of only 300k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Iceland
- vosper 6y agoIceland is a little bit more "on the way" than NZ is - it can be a stopping point on a trip to Europe or the US. But I think you must be right. If the trip becomes less burdensome more people will want to come. The obvious (to me) response is to set a target tourist number, and raise the arrival fee until we get approximately that number of tourists. But now we're getting into policy :)