So this trend of anti-tourist hostility is something the Ethereum world should be aware of and get ahead of, given its reliance on guest presence globally to function, via conferences, popup cities etc. I suspect creating and keeping local goodwill is a 10x bigger task than people realize. Also suggests it’s worth creating a relatively small circuit of cities/regions to cultivate longer-term to amortize the cost of goodwill. The tourism industry is pretty extractive and local governments easily bought, so it’s a situation set up for enshittification. Even though self-identified “activist” locals tend to be a loud and annoying minority everywhere, often making somewhat disingenuous and non-representative arguments against outsiders, they do have a point.

So this trend of anti-tourist hostility is something the Ethereum world should be aware of and get ahead of, given its reliance on guest presence globally to function, via conferences, popup cities etc. I suspect creating and keeping local goodwill is a 10x bigger task than people realize. Also suggests it’s worth creating a relatively small circuit of cities/regions to cultivate longer-term to amortize the cost of goodwill. The tourism industry is pretty extractive and local governments easily bought, so it’s a situation set up for enshittification. Even though self-identified “activist” locals tend to be a loud and annoying minority everywhere, often making somewhat disingenuous and non-representative arguments against outsiders, they do have a point. 

https://www.cnn.com/travel/tourism-why-it-went-wrong/index.html

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would love to hear @vitalik.eth thoughts on this and what cities might be best suited for a regular circuit

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Also true sometimes!

Best is off-season use of tourist hubs. Zuzalu in Montenegro did this really well: the venue at peak time (Jul) is crazy full, some rooms go for $1k/month, but when we came (Apr), the restaurants were grateful that they actually got customers when they would otherwise have been empty.

Good point but over-touristed hubs are often better prepared for a large influx of people visiting which makes it less disruptive than visiting a smaller place that’s not as accustomed to a lot of tourists

My main non-trivial opinion that I'm confident about, is that one big advantage we have is that we are communities that have our own network effects, and so we should be intentionally trying to use those network effects to distribute attention away from the existing over-touristed hubs, and toward other places which are still very welcoming of visitors.