Never lived in a tourist town I take it. Locals can’t stand tourists because, even if many work in service and benefit from tourism, they make day to day life hell during the tourist season, decrease quality of life, increase pollution, etc. Local governments don’t build up infrastructure to accommodate tourists, the only people enriched by it (since local service workers tend to make peanuts and can barely make ends meet) are a few shitty business owners, and tourism is a poor, sporadic source of tax income anyways, the benefits rarely outweigh the costs for the average person.

Source: lived in a Florida beach resort town from middle school until college.

As a person past and currently living in a more tourist-centric area the problem is that many tourists treat areas as if it’s a resort/amusement park where everybody is there to serve and accommodate them and that their good time on their vacation trumps the daily lives of those actually living and working there, especially those of us who have nothing to do with the service or hospitality industry.

Second, it grows old fighting crowds of leisure lovers when you’re just trying to live your normal grind knowing that while some of those schmucks money is helping your local economy, far too much is flowing right back out to non local investors and corporations. The old trickle down bullshit trying to justify why we should all tolerate being shit on and disrespected by entitled shits on holiday is tired and thin.

The article points out how it’s actually harmful for a number of businesses. Anything tourist-facing does well, but businesses that cater primarily to residents find that a lot of their customers can’t or won’t make it to them through the traffic and crowds