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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Tourism backlash may impact Ethereum events & global presence. Important to prioritize building local goodwill to counter anti-tourist sentiment