As someone who lives in a city that's popular with tourists and has a major summer cruise industry, that's...not entirely accurate. A lot of tourists exit the boat and head straight for a line of taxis and app-based gig workers. This results in a staggering amount of added car traffic. The city has tried adding tourist-focused bus routes and branded shuttles but rail bias is a major thing in tourism.
> I am putting money in to the local economy. I do not use international chain (except Ikea in Sweden - meat balls). Local worker in local shops.
I understand that it feels like this and maybe it is true to a limited extent, but when an area becomes dominated by tourism, tourist-focused industries take over and shops and services that cater to longer-term residents are pushed out.
CityBeautiful has an insightful video on this happening in Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClC9TtQlco