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Limited number of tourists VISA per year, available via a bidding system. This will obviously restrict the destination to the richest and not fair for the tour
by KolmogorovComp 3y ago
Limited number of tourists VISA per year, available via a bidding system.
This will obviously restrict the destination to the richest and not fair for the tourists, but from the host country it’s definitely a way of limiting the number of tourists while extracting the maximum value from each of them.
- sveme 3y agoThey are part of the EU, so anyone from there can freely move and live there. You cannot restrict this. Limitations in flights would be feasible, I guess.
- walthamstow 3y agoI don't think that is compatible with Schengen / EU freedom of movement
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- kgwgk 3y agoWe’re not even talking about an independent country. Tourists could still arrive via internal flights.
- forkerenok 3y agoThere are a lot of people in the EU and other countries that don't need visas, so I'm not sure that's the right dial to use.
- lukan 3y agoYes, the vast majority of canary tourists are from EU. Mostly british and german. And we can not just fly there, we can just move there, thanks to the EU. And this is good. But that I can fly there for 20€ from germany, this is nuts. So maybe the solution is to stop subsidizing flying (taxfree kerosin etc)
- nope1000 3y agoI just paid around 500€ round trip to Fuerteventura from MUC and that was the cheapest direct flight. For 20€ you don't even get breakfast at the airport.
- lukan 3y agoAre you aware of skyscanner? (Or just check ryanair directly) No idea if copying the link just works, but here it offers me flights starting from 14€ for this month. https://www.skyscanner.de/transport/fluge/de/tfs/?adults=1&adultsv2=1&cabinclass=economy&children=0&childrenv2=&inboundaltsenabled=false&infants=0&outboundaltsenabled=false&oym=2404&preferdirects=true&ref=home&rtn=0 https://www.skyscanner.de/transport/fluge/de/tfs/?adults=1&a... Not that I recommend flying with them. They are cheap. And I like it save (and have ethical concerns about unnecessary flights). But many people use that bargain to fly so cheap for just a few days and then head back. And I have to say, in winter in germany it is tempting.
- RamblingCTO 3y ago20€? How so? I paid 290€ from Frankfurt 4 weeks ago.
- heavenlyblue 3y agoFor a little bit above this price you can fly to Cabo Verde (double the distance) from London
- lukan 3y agoRyanair for example. Not at peak times in holiday, but they even advertise that flights start at 15.77€ https://www.ryanair.com/flights/de/de/fluege-nach-teneriffa https://www.ryanair.com/flights/de/de/fluege-nach-teneriffa
- wcoenen 3y agoI think a simpler approach is to limit the number of flights. The local airport authority already has to decide how many slots are made available and allocate them, so there's no additional admin overhead.
- herbst 3y agoThe reviews on the restaurants there are regularly people whining about how expensive everything got. People spend hundreds of dollars to fly there and live in some 5 star resort just to complain about a $20 menu. They simply have the wrong kind of tourists.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoI think that's just it. There's a lot of (british) party tourists and all inclusive type of tourists. I don't think that's the type of tourist anyone would want. And the building of these hotels and real estate is in the hands of the government. So they brought this onto themselves. If you fly in (especially on Tenerife) you see hotel after hotel after hotel. It's disgusting really. (I thru-hiked the island and it's beautiful, but the coasts are weird, tho beautiful)
- herbst 3y agoAnd Germans. Who live in German resorts and only visit absurdly cheap restaurants with German flags. At least in maspalomas that was kinda weird.
- lifestyleguru 3y agoGermans, Dutch, and Scandinavians really put me off about Canary Islands. They behave as it is their Germanic colony. They just push away and hiss at strangers. No you're not direct and straightforward, you're a loose butthole.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoCan't say anything about that, but had the pleasure at Las Veronicas with the brits. Holy crap, that was disgusting. The girls were dressed even more loose than the hookers.
- jamesrr39 3y agoIf it was where I lived, I'm not sure I would only like to have the richest tourists visiting. It would be nice to have some down-to-earth people as well. Do the richest tourists contribute to the local economy the most anyway? Or is it more like they spend lots of money with multinational companies (e.g. big fashion brands) that ultimately pay tax/have suppliers elsewhere?