The harmful effects of too much tourism:

- A lot of houses become vacation homes, where the owners stay in another place, and rent their property to tourists for short lets.
- As a place gets full of tourists, the local community is outnumbered.
- Mostly, only the service industry flourishes
- (I'd probably write more later)

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exchrist · 31-35

Schools lose out bc of short term students.

SW-User

@exchrist Could you please explain?

exchrist · 31-35

@SW-User assuming students are being put out of housing but that probably doesnt apply. If summer vacation/summer school. Were a thing.

SW-User

@exchrist I heard that in one university, they let tourists stay in student accomodation. You just reminded me of that.

exchrist · 31-35

@SW-User cost savings i assume students arent still there too?

MethDozer · M

@exchrist Ummm actually the schools usually are on the winning end because the tourist season residents who bring their kids are doing so when school isn't in session but as landowners are paying a school tax on a school system they don't use.

I don't know where you get this idea that seasonal residents send their kids to the local tourist town schools.