Do people not know what they're getting when they go to visit Venice? I don't need to go there to know that I wouldn't want to go there. The Venice people actually might want to visit hasn't existed for hundreds of years. You can't go to that one. You can only go to the ersatz tourism version of it that happens to be co-located geographically.
If demand were high enough, someone could build a replica out in the deserts of southern Nevada or northern China.
I'm not very keen on tourism in general, if you couldn't detect my tone. When it's not part of a parting-cash-from-visitors industry, tourism can actually be quite inexpensive and enjoyable, but all the incentives are for locals to establish such an industry once the numbers rise high enough. The only way around it is to not visit the same places (away from home) too often, and to not go anywhere with too many visitors. Once businesses start to differentiate between those serving locals and those serving visitors, the slope starts slipping.
If demand were high enough, someone could build a replica out in the deserts of southern Nevada or northern China.
I'm not very keen on tourism in general, if you couldn't detect my tone. When it's not part of a parting-cash-from-visitors industry, tourism can actually be quite inexpensive and enjoyable, but all the incentives are for locals to establish such an industry once the numbers rise high enough. The only way around it is to not visit the same places (away from home) too often, and to not go anywhere with too many visitors. Once businesses start to differentiate between those serving locals and those serving visitors, the slope starts slipping.