It is absolutely possible for every earth citizen to become a tourist, there is no economic impediment to do it.
> We either eliminate these experiences, accept economic inequality, or watch the experiences be eliminated via attrition (e.g. cars devolving into gridlock, tourism devolving into queues and displacement, ...).
Specifically, the last part. If everyone is a tourist, what it means to be a tourist is very, very different.
Consider:
We strictly have enough jet fuel and aluminium and so on to fly everyone about all over. What happens if we actually do that?
Venice is bloody underwater, that's what.
That said - I'm an optimistic physicist and engineer. Let's fix this, shall we?
Right, I've invented and scaled electric aeroplanes and fusion power.
Let's try again. What happens if we actually do that?
Venice has more tourists than people.
Bugger.
Which of those methods is "reasonable" for you to use as a tourist. The bike is clearly out. You can take a ferry across the Mediterranean once you get to it, but that's a whole thing. There is no train and buses would be...a lot. A straight car ride is 104 hours, or just over 4 days each way. And again, you make $804 USD/year.
Is OP's example helpful to the conversation: IDK, possibly? But the idea that it's reasonable for a tourist might be a bit much. IDK, who am I to say what's reasonable for people who make less in a year than I do in about 3 days.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/n'd%C3%A9l%C3%A9/venice/@25....
I'll wait while you address the actual line of conversation I was involved in instead of making up sci fi stories about how cool 2050 is going to be.
I don't think anyone was making the claim that it was reasonable to get the average person from CAR to Venice today.
What a narrow point that is! Useless to make any decision whatsoever.
...Consider that you can travel from Moscow to Beijing on a single train (or Paris-Beijing with a single transfer), it seems that traveling long distances by rail aren't inherently impossible.
>>InitialLastName 4 hours ago | Pretty much none of those things will make it reasonable for someone from, say, Central African Republic to visit Venice.
>>onanbatt 2 hours ago Why?
No I wasn't. I was answering "why" in this response chain. That's a whole other conversation going on elsewhere.
Human kind is exceptional at finding substitutes and while not everyone on earth can get a turn to go to Venice, there are literally thousands of alternative options, and the basic economic interactions will make the available to all.
The easy, facile answer is to move all the residents out, turn the old city into Historic Venice Amusements District, build a commuter transit line out to New Venice (with no tourist attractions), and all of its civic services are then paid for by income from the tourist trap. Everyone has ready access to service jobs in the tourism and public safety sectors. If tourists want to see real Venetians, they pay to bring some in on the train, to be photographed in a nearly-authentic setting.
"Nobody goes there anymore--it's too crowded."
You shouldn't curse your own success. Plenty of cities would dearly love to have throngs of visitors that seek only to look around, have fun, eat, drink, and otherwise spend their vacation money. I know of one in Florida that was specifically built, from the swamp up, for that single purpose.
If you don't want all tourist attractions to become Disneyworld, you have to visit places that aren't yet well on their way to that endpoint. There are many places on this planet that are fun and interesting for visitors. I can very easily choose to no visit locales that have been overrun and ruined by overtourism. It's not difficult. If an underemployed local is trying to sell you discounted show tickets or pass out ad-laden maps of local attractions, you're in one. If your hotel has posted a warning about pickpockets, you're in one. If you can't discern the boundary line between the gift shop at the exit to the last attraction and the gift shop at the entrance to the next one, you're in one.
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.
My girlfriend and I stayed at a bead & breakfast in the new city. Most of the tourists are locals from France, but enough people speak English that communication is not a problem.
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