I grew up in rural america in a tourist town. We hated the tourists. Wealthy. Arrogant. Rude. Unaware of local customs. Drove up rent and grocery prices.
But, at the end of the day, we were the only town within an hour radius that wasn’t crumbling. All those vacation homes paid property taxes and the school system was great. There were jobs for people.
There are a lot of issues with unregulated tourism and immigration. But it’s better to regulate the issues and keep up with fostering good job markets and building government controlled affordable housing instead of try and ban a chunk of your economy. Which, from this limited article, it seems like the government is trying to do.
Looks like overtourism is becoming an issue everywhere in the world. Yet another instance of the tragedy of the commons.
But a deeper underlying issue is the idea of real estate as investment. If you treat housing as an investment, of course renting to tourists is more profitable, therefore more of it will be dedicated to tourism.
Private equity needs to be reigned in all over the globe
There’s video of people spray painting things like ’kill a gringo’.
As a gringo, nice. I hope their housing prices go down.
fucking based. reminds me of the rent-lowering gunshots meme
My MIL and FIL were just down there visiting family and told me that they’ve built what are essentially giant walled off communities full of houses and businesses that are essentially their own independent cities where people never need to leave and security doesn’t allow any unauthorized individuals inside.
I saw similar things when visiting a resort outside of Playa Del Carmen when we’d hired a local cab driver in Playa to take us around for the day and drop us off at the resort. Security checked us all for our passes but chilled out a little once they saw me (a gringo) in the taxi van with everyone else.
Tourism isn’t the problem 😂 more dumb people unable to find the root cause.
good argument (/s)
if you want to provide an actual argument, better provide the whole argument, instead of basically just saying “you’re wrong lol”
what causes it instead?
Yawn. Someone is profiting on tourism. Use your brain and follow the money ffs.
gringo nonsense
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they’re not immigrants, they’re settlers. they’d probably sue you for hate speech when using the i-word
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I know why you got downvoted, but you are right, it’s not about tourists, it’s about the USA immigrants (the so called expats), since the goverment made changes to privately benefit from all the airbnb shit, we have people earning in dollars, that pay 0 taxes to México and of course the market tries to squeeze out their dollars, rising prices and changing the environment to appeal to those migrants, leaving out and even kicking out the nationals.
People are right to be angry about it, but they are aiming to the wrong part, this was allowed (and boosted) by the past and present administration (even when they were warned about it) to fill their own pockets even if it meant stepping on their own people.
The people in power allow the rich to become richer on the backs of the poor.
“I’m not the problem!” Says the rich man, “it’s those immigrants, whose money I’m taking, who are the problem. Fight amongst yourselves”
To a lesser extent, many USA immigrants are trying to make everything around them to their liking instead of integrating themselves to a new culture… And a lot of mexicans are happy to lick their soles expecting to become one of them or be accepted by them.
This is how demand works. If the population of an area want a Starbucks, they get a Starbucks. I’ve lived in many areas that were cool until they became “cool,” if you catch my meaning. Prices went up and I had to leave. It’s tempting to blame the people who came in and were willing to spend money. But while trying to find the root cause of the problem, they quickly become… Not the problem.
I’d say few people go into a new area and think, gosh I want to make this different. They went there because they wanted to be there. If a Starbucks pops up, they aren’t exactly upset, but they probably could live without it.
The problem is the people who own these places. Those people aren’t the ones protesting. And if you want to think of it from a purely ownership standpoint, the people protesting have no right to complain what the people who own the land want to do with it.
I have no idea what the solution is beyond rent control and price caps. Those two things will keep costs down regardless of tourism, discouraging landowners from changing the area to suit the demand of tourism.
Additionally, preventing foreign companies from establishing their businesses in the region would preserve the local culture. However, as previously mentioned, it is the individuals who own this land—both in a literal and a political sense—who are facilitating this occurrence.
if they’re gonna act like colonizers, people have every right to be mad at individual tourists. no more of this “no ethical consumption under capitalism” bs
