An Italian holiday may be a priceless experience for those who have enjoyed all this country has to offer. But the summer of 2023 will go down as one of the priciest in history after a slew of price gouging scandals at cafes and restaurants that have affected foreign tourists and Italians alike.
Tourism is cancer…
What is over lap between people bitching about climate change and going to 2 annual vacations with air travel?
You got downvoted but it is a fair question. I hope sustainability is started to be talked about more in the travel sector
They got downvoted because “tourism is cancer” is a dumb short sighted statement. No one is expected to stay in their little town and never visit anywhere else. It’s nice to travel and experience the culture of other nations and towns and to know that there are other people besides the ones you interact with in your little bubble.
We only have one life and we need to be allowed to live it well. It’s completely unfair to expect the lower and middle classes to stick to their small towns in the name of sustainability when the rich are doing as they want with absolutely zero regard for the environment.
At least tourism actually supports local economies and the people living in those destinations.
Billionaires are out here flying around to avoid traffic (ie Elon Musk) and people are out here shitting on me for my 1 trip a year to visit my family
If y’all wanna buy me a house out there and pay my moving costs so I don’t have to fly anymore to see them then I welcome the opportunity
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I’m with you. I know it’s unpopular but fuck. I know so many people that espouse a green philosophy but won’t bat an eyelash at multiple intercontinental flights a year. And especially with the rise of air bnb tourism is just wreaking these places. Where I king, you’d get one travel pass in you twenties and another in your sixties.
Im on the fence with this. If i were king i feel like 1 a year could be fine. But that would mean rich people would also have to follow that. If you cut down on those ridiculous daily 5 minute private jet flights it wouldnt be the massive problem it is now.
Airbnb is a different subject. Shouldnt exist imo
Short-term house/apartment rentals are great. AirBNB specifically is shit.
If your issue is that the housing could be used to house locals, that’s an issue with a shortage of housing, not AirBNB.
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More or less, yeah. But we can do the other things if we make sure to do them sustainably.
List?
A list of things idiots say?
Why not, you know, looked up a survey or something that tells you what it’s really like instead of what heavily downvotes people say on social media?
Do you think there’d be no difference?