Take a minute to consider what a small mountain or beach community that you appreciate would be like if development became more flexible in the ways you're considering.
Would you actually want to go there anymore?
Exactly.
Would you actually want to go there anymore?
Exactly.
A quaint mountain town is no longer that once you double capacity and build dense housing. Which, depending on who you are, might be fine or it might not be. There's no neutral right answer here.
But if someone grew up in a small town—and is now lamenting that it's nothing but tourists—building more accommodations won't return it to its former status. It'll transform it into something else.
And for some residents that's a huge windfall. Let's remember that the AirBnB hosts, or the people who sold out to investment corporations, were all those small town locals at one point. They helped decided what was going to happen to the town. (Though we can acknowledge the game theory traps involved).
I'm not saying it's right on wrong, but it's strange to "blame" AirBnB. The content of article amounts to "towns are finally deciding how they want to evolve in the face of changing culture and market forces". Good for them.
Miami FL sort of proves that you can have absolutely insane amounts of development in a beach area and get massive tourist traffic.