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> Winter Olympics locations rarely end up as tourist destinations because people take fewer international vacations to cold locations. I would describe it diff
by rjsw 6y ago
> Winter Olympics locations rarely end up as tourist destinations because people take fewer international vacations to cold locations.
I would describe it differently, the facilities used for skiing events are usually already tourist locations, plenty of people take international skiing vacations.
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- Retric 6y agoIt’s purely a numbers game, ski trips happen but are really a small subset of trips. Meanwhile 1/2 of the Olympic city’s host winter games.
- rjsw 6y agoThe venues for Olympic Winter games are by definition where people go for ski trips, they may build varying amounts of infrastructure for non-skiing events but they will have an economy already geared around tourism.
- Retric 6y agoCortina d'Ampezzo is hosting the 2026 Winter ski events, and yes it’s a ski destination but only has a peak of 40k residents in the winter which is when the Olympic boom would hypothetically take place. That’s not a huge economy to absorb a short term spike in tourism when it’s focused on a few months out of the year. Worse it’s not like there is a massive untapped surplus of people doing international ski vacations. But don’t take my word for it their are actual studies looking into this stuff that come to similar conclusions.
- rjsw 6y agoCortina is surrounded by other ski resorts, there isn't a shortage of beds, the one time I skied there I stayed in another town. The Dolomites are also a summer tourist area.