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Yes, but without the tourists, who keeps your restaurants open, etc? It's not like locals eat out every day of the year. There's only so many times they will go to the museum.
It seems tourists are just the latest in a huge line of things we'll blame before figuring out that we just haven't built enough housing in popular areas for all the people that want to be there. That we haven't bothered to invest in things outside the capitals to try and make people want to be there instead.
Pehaps, and I might be crazy, but hear me out, there just might be some room between absolutely no tourists at all ever and being flooded by literal millions?
Are you really being flooded by "literal millions"? Most of these places will have in the tens to hundreds of thousands of tourists at any one time. That's no different from having that many residents, only they're spending a lot more money.
You can't afford to live there, but that's not the fault of tourists or the immigrants or the landlords any of the other things you choose to blame. It's because you've decided to pointlessly centralise your economy into a select few physical locations. Why do you want to live there? Why are you contributing to the problem? It's not always somebody else's fault.
You're not in traffic. You are traffic.