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Maybe but I do think it makes the life there more miserable for both inhabitants and those visiting.

I have lived on Gotland as mentioned in the article and it is similar in many ways but life on Gotland is way more interesting due to the tourism. You still have the calm life of the country side except that during the summer there is a little more people there.

Those people enhance the lives on Gotland because it makes life on Gotland possible for many instead for only a few. Personally I think the anti-tourism mindset is stupid and that is what I was trying to convey in the text. Of course you can think differently but that still doesn't invalidate my points.




>life on Gotland is way more interesting due to the tourism

Perhaps those people don't want "a little more people there", and think their life is enough interesting as it is?

>Personally I think the anti-tourism mindset is stupid and that is what I was trying to convey in the text.

Try living in some places burnened by tourism and see how bad it gets. And consider how Gotland might be in a trajectory to get in that list, as welcoming tourists can easily cascade to further tourism and changing the local economy, and then it's a race to the bottom.




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