A tourist economy is a supply economy and a damn useful one too
Then again, I'm hard pressed to think of a great city economy that emerged from a tourist economy--whereas I can think of several...
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...that emerged from other supply economies (salt, lumber, furs, etc...) So maybe this is just theory trumping real life, idk
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The problem with tourist cities is that they tend to only grow on the tourism and dont try any other economies
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that's the problem with most supply economies, they never think to diversify until too late
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Problem is tourism can overwhelm infrastructure even if other economies do well. E.g. Barcelona. Berlin on lesser scale.
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