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New Zealand (pre covid) had tourism overtake dairy for top spot in our economy. I initially thought this great, but I was very wrong. Tourism damages and destro

• RantyDave 3y ago
  And, as we discovered, can be snuffed out of existence in an afternoon.
• coldtea 3y ago
  It's a race to the bottom and highly volatile. Even if your country opts for "high standards tourism", and prevents the shitty all it takes is a few seasons with fewer visitors or mass tourism style visitors /1, and standards will be lowered very easily. You can only prevent this when your economy isn't dependent on it, but can use income from other stuff (exports, industry, etc) to weather such periods. (/1 which can happen due to whatever, a recession, covid, some war, another close destination getting more fashionable or undercutting you heavily, some major accident or local issue turning people off your place, and other reasons)