Tourism and local economies.

[zxcvbs]

Hi im new here, a time ago i discovered Stefan work searching some youtube videos, in that moment i liked the concept that he was aprochhing in that video (i think about procastination) but i didnt search beyond

 

I want to ask about tourism.

 

My posititon is that it is an artificial economy that doesnt countribute anything useful,raises the local costs of living to the standards of people spending from vacation money,  promotes a serie of business mounted on a illusory national fake sell/for export culture,  prohibitive and useless for locals.

I know that this is a consumer related problem, but tourists dont have much notion about real local economies, they just buy illusions. 

I dont think that tourism for the sake of being less damaging to the enviroment directly is more useful in a region, than say improving local manufacture/ technological industries.

 

How do you think tourism benefits/impacts on local economies?  what are my defective reasonings?

[dsayers]

My posititon is that it is an artificial economy that doesnt countribute anything useful

 

How do you define useful? What says that something has to be useful? If people are offering goods/services at whatever price and people are paying for them, it doesn't matter what you and I think about it so long as nobody is initiating the use of force. Places where people would rather be command higher prices due to competition.

 

artificial economy countribute useful illusory national fake prohibitive useless problem real illusions damaging to the enviroment improving local manufacture/ technological industries

 

I just don't see an argument in your introductory post. I do see a bunch of words that when considered together appears to be appeals to emotion, sophist in its approach, or just plain vague talking point deepities. If you could organize your thoughts, write them down systematically, address the questions above, and explain why what other people voluntarily do together that doesn't initiate the use of force against anybody is any of our concern, it would be easier to have a conversation.

[Daniel Unplugged]

Economics 101, free trade benefits both countries. Look up comparative advantage for a full explanation.

 

To answer your question more directly, selling products to tourists/exporting to foreign countries, which in a way is the same thing, benefits the local economy. It give the locals more purchasing power than they would otherwise have. This is why: The whole purpose of selling a local products to a foreigner is to get money to purchase something back from the foreigner. If a local does not value what he can buy with the money more than what he has to sell to get it, he does not trade. This is why trade must benefit him.

 

It is true that tourists pay almost no heed to what is best for the local economy, nor does almost everybody else engaged in trade, but they don't need to. Thats the beauty of free markets, all people need to do is to act in their own best interests. The act of engaging in trade is enough to know that you are benefiting your trading partner.

The benefit to the locals is found in what they can buy with the money they get from selling to the tourists.

 

I don't get what you mean when you link tourism to the environment, could you please clarify your point.

[zxcvbs]

Hi, sorry for the delay. I was preparing exams.

I thought this because, is something that makes little noise on my ears, but i dont think prohibitionism, is the solution, i/we can only  limit to put some awareness on foreigners for the value of what they are paying ( expensives souvenirs from China), and make tourism more local and self sustaining but nothing more.

Just posted this to know how to interact in this forum, really i have to think in a self evaluated concept for value.

I will just limit to say that something is valuable if it contributes to serve a functional need more higher than the expending on energy consumed for creating and recycling its material components.