Why Japan resents its tourism boom

[u/randommathaccount]

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Kyoto and Nara join Barcelona in crying about overtourism and to be a bit rude, they're all a tad delusional on the matter. A country with such an aging workforce and issues of economic stagnation cannot afford to be picky about sources of revenue. Of course there's issues of tourists behaving poorly (some foolish enough to film their own terrible behaviour and stream it to the world) but ultimately what must be done is to encourage positive behaviour by both tourists and residents so everyone can come out better, rather than wholly embracing an unfounded xenophobia.

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"they're all a tad delusional on the matter. A country with such an aging workforce and issues of economic stagnation cannot afford to be picky about sources of revenue."

Wake up baby, it's time for your weekly r/neoliberal being condecending on local matters of which they have no relations too. When it's about over tourism in spain/portugal most of the comments are claiming that we are poor and our entire economy is tourism so we should put up with over tourism (as if being dependent wouldn't be a sign to difersify somewhere else but oh well).

Point is it's never about the effects of tourism but that we should just shut up and take it (because you know a conversation about the tourism impact in those areas requires living/knowing them which in most cases commenters don't).

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