Blame tourist for all your countries problems
Refuse tourist into many Izakayas for decades
Fail to capture the tourist market for decades
Prices rise and force out much of the native population
Try to pivot to the same tourist you told to GTFO and never marketed to
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FORECLOSURE!
Literal pottery.
Not a smart marketing decision to gatekeep Izakayas from people with money. Many tourist out earn even the most skilled of salarymen by a wide margin. Not marketing to this group has been a massive mistake, foolish.
Extreme nationalism is generally bad for tourism and tourism is generally good for economies. Sad to see Japan slip this way, of course, but they’re not alone.
Okay, good points, but have you had to live where tourists visit?
Yes, both in places that are overcrowed, and places with a healthy tourism industry without overcrowding. If kept at a number that doesn’t disrupt the lives of people trying to do productive work, tourists can even have a positive effect on local life.
An important part of keeping the local population happy is to completely ban airbnb, so people can still afford to live in tourist areas
Sadly only a few big cities are doing that
Housing isn’t really much of an issue in Japan. The actual issie with tourists is overcrowding, bad behavior, and the effect on food prices
That’s the idea, but it’s an idea that is hard to achieve these day, where a single viraled socmed post can turn the place upside down in a matter of days.
Mayday, a very popular Taiwanese band, went to Beijing for their concert recently, and they took a picture of the lead singer in front of a toilet, then soon after the place is flooded with fans lining up to take a picture of a toilet with the similar post, turning locals life into hell.
Some tourism influencer(dry-heave) can just post “this 100 years old shop is closing next month due to the lack of customer” and by next week the street is unwalkable.
It’s an issue that’s hard to solve at time, and if it’s super crowded, they might have a hard time to do any festival because it’s very likely lead to another stampede. They could’ve redirect the tourism to another city though.
Hell, I try not to even visit places where too many tourists visit