Conflicts of a 1.5 trillion dollar tourist industry | Transforming Business
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Billions of people went on vacation in 2023, almost hitting pre-pandemic levels. Money has poured into the tourism industry, but it’s come at a cost in many other ways. Popular destinations like Mallorca and the Mexican city of Cancún are almost collapsing under the masses of people. This not only pushes locals out - it brings heaps of garbage, polluted water and soaring rents. In contrast, Costa Rica is praised as a pioneer of sustainable tourism in Latin America. But does it live up to its image? And is sustainable mass tourism even possible?
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Almost everybody, everywhere complaining about inflation/rising costs, and yet number of tourists keeps increasing.., apparently some people take a loan to travel 🤦♂
Well it interesting isn't it, that in the video the revenues between 2018 and 2024 have hardly moved at all particualrly when taking into account the huge increases in inflation in the last 24 months.
I think many westerners are also travelling to scout out places for a potential move due to the crazy price hikes in western countries. People are finding work online and are choosing to travel/move to places where they can have a better lifestyle and cheaper prices. That inflation is predominantly seen in the west, Asian country’s prices have remained the same or in the case of Japan actually started to drop.
We had to use saving to afford vacation this year. It was just a simple car vacation
Don't travel in August.
Try to avoid the summer if you can.
Spring and fall are much more sane.
Put down your phone.
You may have to pass on the typical hot spots.
Spend more time in one place if you can to experience slow travel.
Talk to the locals.
Get lost, really.
Eat and live like a local.
I traveled the world in the 90s. No Internet. Good fun. And a lot smarter type of people traveling.
I know !! No silly selfie stuff.
I am still traveling the world.
I post zero content in social media.
I enjoy and absorb the experience internally.
I can't imagine navigating a foreign city without Google Maps, but then, I'm a phone-dependent millennial.
@@phoenix5054 the best part was getting lost, then you asked people where to go. And before you know it, you’re in in the backyard barbecue. Or some bizarre situation.
Totally agree. You were there to accommodate yourself to a foreign land, not the other way around. One backpack and hostels and the whole point was to cut ties with where you came from for a while. And to force yourself to learn a new language and new towns. It was getting bad in the late 2000s, you literally couldn’t move in the city center of places like Prague because of the groups of tourists. I shudder to think how it is now.
Sustainable tourism is just another oxymoron like green capitalism. The one thing nobody wants to face: We must radically change our way of life.
So true!
How so?
@@jaunt3603 we should learn to live a simple way of life.
Luxury harms our spirit, our body and the environment.
Here, Greece, is being destroyed by overtourism.
@@kdimitris17 telling people how to live is harmful
@@jaunt3603 living a simple life is harmful?
I guess the easiest way to do that, is to limit the number of hotels and Airbnb type places in an area. Make it a yearly lottery type system in each class rate, to open one.
LOL the easiest way to do that is to increase prices until all the tourists leave and the economy collapse and everyone loses their job. When everyone loses their jobs housing prices go down and the city becomes a ghost town. When the city is a ghost town and nobody live there the tourism becomes sustainable.
Majorca is an island so simply limiting the number of planes landing and ships docking should do the job. And it’s a lot easier than trying to stop people from renting out their flats.
Sustaining an economic so heavily dependent on tourism is unsustainable. It’s like a 1000 people showing up at your door and wanting to use your toilet. Time to diversify the economy or suffer the consequences.
Or use the tourism money to build more toilets?
Do you have any other option?
Another solution
Build a tourism WALL
Some Caribbean countries totally depend on tourism.
Cancun was literally created for tourism. It was uninhabited in the 70s.
Control is in the hands of destination countries themselves. If they dont want the visitors, stop building the hotels, stop licensing the restaurants and bars, tax investment property owners ...but you wont. Youve seen nothing yet with the growth of the middle classes in China and India, this is just the start. Chinese Transport Ministry expects 14 million of its nationals to regularly cruising by 2034.
Airbnb. THis is the root of overtourism.imo Too many places to accommodate….cities overrun. It’s like herds of people on the streets. Just horrible.
The one thing it didn't touch on clearly is that communities are tired of the tourist market capitalising on their culture without paying into the system or having a responsible government investing or creating policies/programs that benefit the community, and instead you have hotels trying to label their capitalistic colonialism as green sustainablility. These governments to these tourist areas should increase the price and stop the industry from free riding or free loading on the area.
I stopped visiting hot spot tourist destinations. It’s depressing watching the overrun.
Sustainable tourism is go around in your own area and explore the places in your own country
I grew up on the OREGON coast , no one like the tourist, but they all benefit from the money .
Exactly! And a lot of people are such hypocrites about it too - I grew up in a major tourist city and worked in the tourist industry. I saw people complain about tourists, but these same people won’t give up their jobs and do something objectively harder ( like teaching for your guides or manufacturing for restaurant workers).
People ask for tourism to end. When tourism ends, people will ask tourism to come back…
Here in the UK we have areas that even our healthcare workers cant afford accomidation due to second homes and airbnb! How are the low paid mostly seasonal workers expected to afford housing?
For a more sustainable tourism in the future, local government has to step in, here are some things they could do:
1. CApping tourist number per month/season (for instance, limits the flight/cruise number coming in in advance so tourists don't have to check for the cap themselves)
2. build more sustainable hotels: government should incentive hotels by giving subsidy which are sustainable
3. cancel airbnb
4. improve infrastructure like trash cycling system, green energy, public transportation etc.
5. diversifying income: Use the tourism money to invest other industries, so if another covid comes the city will have much more resilience to overcome it.
> local government has to step
It's on paychecks of corporations.🤷♀
Welcome to reality of Capitalism.
@@delta_glider4362 Finally someone said it. People are so removed that they can't even see what the root issue is.
The Jasper Park Canada wildfire shows how our planet is fighting this trend of destructive capitalism. The glacier's and acidified ocean's extinct fish populations are other creative ways that our planet is speaking to us. "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal.
I remember going to Hawaii and and my friends there complaining about tourism.
Meanwhile at home my state is one of the top 5 states people are moving to. At least the tourist leave. Here they just keep coming and prices go up and wages dont. Little infrastructure development. I guess its nice to have all these new restaurants and stuff but the deforestation for cardboard houses with no yard space that I can never hope to afford, increased traffic and property taxes sucks.
My friends from there visited here as well several years ago. If they were to see the area now it would be quite different. Hundreds more buildings added since then.
The money is probably going to politicians pockets rather than to favor residents’ interests.
Maybe places that have too many tourists arriving could create a lottery system for how many people are allowed to visit at any given time.
Locals aren't getting a taste
people need to take care of their own litter.
Just got back from Mallorca. Beautiful, will return. I hope the locals will elect people that will guvern for them. Just stoping turism is probably not a sane idea. Maybe start with some building purpose rules. Stop overbuilding. And go up-market, more income per tourist, not more tourists. And about trash... All those that I've seen misbehaving spoke Spanish.
What is that blurring in 2:45? Are you using someone else material and do not want to credit them or the source is already blurred?
I find that most places is lack signs or government & local business did not facilitated proper tools for tourism. It is like you are welcome to visit and enjoy the places but lack garbage trash can. When I visit to many other county is what I see lack of practice for traveler. It is almost like they only want you to stay dine/drink indoor. As a solo traveler to San Francisco, Japan, Cuba, Hong Kong. I constantly had to look for trash can and it was so full and destroyed. I had to go buy something and ask for used plastic bags to carry all my trash in my backpack while doing site seeing and only dine in during end of days back to hotel if can be separated. When back home at any places I can find trash can be everywhere, with signs and easy to find them. IT is a problems, but it is Tourist city, local business & government did not provide tools for it. I would be happy if they can do that. I used to work in tourism industry where I provide to assist guest or show them if they want to do it themself. They were happily and gladly for this type of services.
Can you pls share the link to the UN Study you mention in the video?
I would never, ever trust a hotel to clean their own wastewater.
And the main problem is Spains incompetent government, not tourists. Just wait til the water runs out...
Their anger is misdirected.
This is more a thriving industry than over tourism. It is failure of government policy to stream money into support of people and infrastructure living at those locations. Calling it overtourism is misleading and people is focusing their energy in the wrong direction. It should not be against tourists themselves, it should be against policy makers.
In one of Larry Nivens scifi novel, he casually mentions that tourists have to place a reservation to go anyplace.
And wait YEARS.
There's no holding back the tide. The tourism needs to somehow be balanced out in numbers across the places. Perhaps expose much more places to visit.
Those guys need to invest more in their wastewater systems.
Heavily relying on tourist sometimes isn't good because it flare up prices, waste management and crimes etc should be tackle. Its OK to have moderate tourist so that everything is smooth.
Look at Philippines little tourist arrivals but the tourist receipts is higher yet the environments cam breathe as well from pollution and disturbance.
sounds like some doing their best to get the money from the system/eu
working 60-80 hours a week in tech so I can take 3 day vacation in Spain, not a spoil at all,
and I find it disturbing we have to extend our current racism hype into tourism as well ... I just want to enjoy my few days of vacation, not to have garbage thrown at me by the locals.
People are confusing tourism and home prices. Tell me a place in Europe and the US where home prices are NOT out of control?
Hopefully more places will limit tourisms and introduce much clearer rules and regulations. It's also pretty hypocritical of nations like germany to constantly try to limit who can come in while exporting their hooligans all over europe to wreak havoc. So hopefully they're less able to do stuff like that in the future.
Places that protest tourism, should be respected and everyone in the world stop going there causing tourism going to 0%. The national governments as well should not help make up for lack of funding lost because of this. If the local economy can survive without tourism then problem solved. If not, then locals can suffer the consequences.
I say stay home and spend your money locally. Screw them. They cry and complain about tourists but then they will cry and complain their business are failing because there isn't anymore ppl shopping there.
all countries are beautiful in ter own waysand culture...need lot of innovations ...it will be multi trillion dollar industry if innovated correctly.. travelling itself will earn money for people in the future...you have to innovate every country in the world can be travel spots...if you add augmented and vr it may be even more..the future people are very lucky...if no wars happen...
If you can walk, bike or sail there that's a good idea. Or I just realized an app like some kind of eco hitchhiker could also work with some kind of rewards program to businesses to offset carbon credits. I don't know? Just off the top of my head someone figure it out???
Hotels, Beaches, Restaurant, Job
if no tourist, no income, no benefit,
no corrupt.
The main problem is not over tourism but the fact that most people worldwide live off a pay check to pay check ( minimun-wage) wich keeps them dependend and trapped inside the same system that's making housing & food prices skyrocket.
The solution for this problem is for you to became self suficient by learning and starting your own business to make more money or going off-grid!.
Whoever stays inside the system depending upon its crumbs they throw at the masses will forever be a slave!
JOB = Just over broke
Mortgage = Death
Minimum wage = stealer of your time wich is where your life span is based upon
The System/Cities = Open world prison...
Ban Airbnb and other short term rental in main citites. Move it to province and build transport/infrastructure there
I want to take all inclusive vacation for two weeks.
Impose a tourism tax on shops, restaurants, and attractions, and put the money to building more lodging and waste management systems.
In all popular tourist destinations, the money tourists bring are more then enough to do that. The problem is that 1. the local politicians are corrupt and incompetent and 2. the corporations running the hotels and resorts are experts in paying as little taxes as possible. So imposing extra taxes will just end up filling the pockets of corrupt politicians and giving corporations more reason to find ways to pay less taxes.
Good timing with Olympics, that somehow could encourage greater ethical considerations. But already, there should be tourist laws with preventative measures, e.g., high consumer cultures tend to suppose they're more liberated abroad.
>But already, there should be tourist laws with preventative measures
let's make EU
Now let's unmake EU for citizens but keep Brussels ruling
Nice plan! 👌
@@delta_glider4362 you're good at reducing complete sentences to what you what you want, and then falsely projecting unnecessary sarcasm (that's the most I can make of your response)
Unity, all possible
I am still traveling the world.
I post zero content in social media.
I enjoy and absorb the experience internally.
If you travel and never post on social media, did you really travel?
Jkjk!😅
@@purspike
I know right 😂.
I got back from a 10 day cruise around Japan with a stop at Busan.
All our pictures and videos are in our devices.😅
None on social media.
@@Dangic23 Then don’t bother posting.
@@patkennedy2620
That’s what I do.
Its totally in the controll of the host tourist authorities that how many people they want. They give invitation at first to too many tourists due to their greediness and start complaining after taking their money, when they arrive. Sounds like hypocrisy to me.
Thanks to "competent" politicians, tourism is becoming the most important economy in Europe. 🤣 It is enough to look at which countries have the highest GDP growth. My advice to Germany: Refocus more on tourism. You have potential, as I have personally seen visiting Germany!🙂
never again in Spain
No
Spain needs expats and tourists to evolve. In terms of infrastiucture and technology, the country is really far behind from the rest of Europe. The government doesnt seem to want to invest in the country's infrastructure. It is usually private investors from overseas who build businesses, buys and renovates properties, and create new jobs. Whoelse is bringing money into the country? It's definitely not the Spanish and the illegal immigrants...
Not in. Currupt goverment also Sociaistic rules😂
What over tourism ? Give us tourists in India please. We dont get any. No one wants to come here. We need badly.
so you would like a cut of the pie as well?
You should copy Thailand and create fun beach towns. You have to let the ladies go out in bikinis though lol. Because every time I see videos from India, it's like a dude fest everywhere. Edit- I think that's what Mexico is doing by the way, because a lot of their beach towns look a lot like Thailand or Bali to me. I think they planned them that way.
There's nothing wrong with tourism itself. The problem is mass tourism.
India is not tourist friendly; only maybe Goa, Mumbai, parts of Kerala, Andaman are tourist friendly places. I've seen videos where 1 white couple walking around Ahmadabad and people bother them so much asking to take selfies and other nonsense.
Stop people pooping on the beaches firstly, and you should see what happened on Canadian beaches.
Are these tourists or remote workers?
People can check their behavior but it's the politicians. Responsible tourism is a policy issue. Stop trying to shift responsibility
Tell the charities to educate the populations of the world to breed less. Economic growth encourages excess breeding to provide a never ending stream of demand on the globes diminishing limited supply
the Vlog tourists and social media snappers vs spending in restaurants and hotels .cheap travels with some side gains
Do one on all the Asian’s ruining European sites
Hard problem to solve , because we cant say to people stop traveling, humans need to see other countries, its a very complex problem
Real estate magnates should be prohibited to buy up all the properties just to inflate the price of the market…
😂😂😂
2024 So much information 🌐 makes me want to stay home 🙂
Locals have the wild cards - Too many tourists? Just don't come
A fluff piece that says nothing new and introduces nothing new.
Welcome to the free world
Why it's called conflicts? Tourists fight with locals or something?
Yes exactly. They fight for places to sleep in and locals are loosing, because they cannot afford to pay rent like they would be living in holiday resort hotel.
@@universeslap So they not really Locals..Just some jump ofs few years ago..
Actually yes.
@@MrNetAble locals are people, whose permanent residence is in that place. It doesn't matter where they're from originally.
Garbage, bio-waste of tourists, behavior drives the locals crazy
Annoying background music
tourists are polluting too much
Secular trend.
Flights are getting cheaper.
Everyday things are getting cheaper …means everyone has more disposable income.
They want to spend the extra monies on holidays.
If only it was that simple.
Yall having a stupidest think said competition ⁉️🤣
Another iteration of the immigration debate. May the ruckus commence
This is so funny when these countries were poor their ppl left home as immigrants nowadays they want to visit but are unwelcome
Maybe is because sooo many other places are not that interesting. If you Disneyland more some boring seasides or mountain resorts and avoid some annoying over testosteroned bros getting an acces , everyone will be happy. Just came from a holiday in Bruges were I was amused by Spaniards complaining that are tooo many tourists in…. Spain . Oh , the irony …
Can’t have your cake and eat it too
Good, they run to our countries but its not easy for us to visit Europe so why should your visit our countries!!! I so agree with Mexico ects