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Obviously that's not the goal but just to add an additiional revenue stream for the city while lying the local plebs straight in the face.
That is the goal. The price increases, cost of living increases and the gentrification that is brought by tourism in certain places in Europe are so high that "tourist go home" became a common graffiti and the locals are livid. https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u... “The Brits and Germans are the worst, they make our lives hell here,” the pensioner yells, after a group of young tourists fails…
And they buy those flats and don't even life in them. Disneyworldification of tourist destinations is real.
Azores.. Land of empty little houses with little burger boxes, while the natives have to life near the cargo harbor.