Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
by Scoundreller on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:39PM
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That solution could be rephrased as:
“Make poor people poorer”.
The price increases won’t impact the wealthy, even if they did have to reduce their travel by 10-20%. But it will impact those that save (or pay-off) for years for their dream trip or honeymoon trip.
My preferred approach would be more progressive than regressive: just make rich people poorer through income/capital/dividend taxes.
Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
by socrates1998 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:36PM
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If you are poor, should you really be going to Venice?
A reasonably priced lottery would give middle income people access and an even playing field against wealthy people.
This system, combined with a limit on tourist infrastructure would cut down on excessive visitors and make it sustainable.
Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
by mc_blue on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:42AM
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I like the lottery idea a lot, as it would create a more level playing field. I think a possible improvement would be to have a small cost of x to enter the lottery, and then if you are selected you pay X to secure your spot where X >> x.
The point of pricing isn't to completely eliminate tourism, it's to lower it.
The goal is to find a price point that cuts down, but doesn't eliminate tourism.
And while it would attract a higher wealth tourist, you can easily adjust the system to a lottery type where you have a certain percent of people who just buy access and others who won a lottery.
They do this out west for river access during the summer. They don't want a whole bunch of people river rafting and destroying the river, so they have a lottery that you have to buy a ticket for. You lose the money if you don't win a license. This creates revenue without increasing the number of tourists. And it also creates a system where people who really want to go there, will buy a ticket without a guarantee of a spot. And,when they do go, they tend to be much better quality tourists since.
I know people who have been buying tickets for almost a decade and haven't gotten a spot.
Something like this is very effective at keeping up revenue and decreasing the number of tourists.