To think Cornwall has gone down market?

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Not my opinion - that of my friend. She said she was down in West Cornwall for the bank holiday weekend and the crowd seems go have changed a lot over the last five years.

Didn't Mrs Cameron give birth unexpectedly in Cornwall?

Give me the Lakes any day over Cornwall!

What are you implying!? 🤣

This article is interesting on the very similar problems that tourism creates for local people globally. It’s a tension though isn’t it. Even with our ongoing economic crisis in cost of living standards and the long term collapse in living standards in the UK, a lot of us are still going to want to do our very best to proritise to provide holidays for ourselves and our kids.

It’s very understandable emotionally. When things are hard at home, we desperately want and need the break of a holiday, and to give that treat of a holiday to our kids, and to experience travel to see new places, even though holidays look set to get more and more expensive and pressured. That in itself inevitably causes problems for local people finding affordable places to live unless we massively up the building of rural homes, which tourism wouldn’t necessarily support.

It would also imply the pattern long term economically will be that UK staycationers and HK daytrippers who can’t afford an overnight stay, will continue to visit local destinations. So the downward pressure on local spend for some people locally at the UK tourist spots but they will still want to visit. Plus that local housing affordability and pressure on destination infrastructure will continue to be a massive challenge in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl55vdjv2j3o

It's a burden on any area, country. People used to take one holiday a year, now it's two or three. Add in long weekends and short breaks, tourist areas are being hammered.

And areas that are not tourist areas are starting to be hawked as tourist sites. Lincolnshire Wolds for instance. It is a rural farming community with a few market towns, some walking/biking but that’s it. We’d like to keep it that way.

Anglesey has a problem now. Once it was Abersoch people latched onto. Got so expensive visitors started buying up further along the coast. Then Rhosneigr, which everyone was priced out of so it's spreading out along the coastline there.

In the winter it's dead, in the summer OMG the traffic. The price of houses apartments.

It's destroyed some communities.

I appreciate we need tourism but understand that Europe doesn't need the badly behaved, basically skint, out to get drunk crowd.

Lisbon I read this week when the government deruglated rent controls locals had to leave and Airbnb went wild.

Yes, AirBnB needs more regulation for sure. We have so, so many hotels/caravan sites, etc on the LIncolnshire coast for people to stay. Now they are coming to the Wolds. Just in my v. small village, the village stately home is let out for weddings, my neighbours have 2 Air BnBs, another is putting glamping shepherd’s huts on his land outside the village, the pub has lets and a new build for more in the pub car park, across the road in the next hamlet, the large farmhouse there is all Air Bnbs. How many do we need? The ridiculous thing is of course, that people come once, and don’t return. There is literally nothing to do unless you drive a distance. Young people from here have no chance of living out here anymore. If you object to the council about this, they say the local economy in unsustainable unless it is wall to wall tourism. I don’t think so. It is unsustainable to have crowds come in when there is no infrastructure, like decent roads to support it. The effects on the environment are awful. The local council already says it has no plans to improve them or increase services, and I suspect just wants the tax revenue.

I think everyone should be allowed to rent out one property and one property only. Long term let or Airbnb but you only get one choice. Stop renting being an industry and get houses back in the ownership of residents again.

Mind you day trippers are as bad. That report on Venice a previous poster linked to is scary. It literally has become a functioning theme park. It's now down to a quarter of its population that it had in the 1950's. 51, 000 residents vs 20 MILLION annual tourists.