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Dundorf's Tourism: what Strengths and what Weaknesses?

February 5576

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Tourist in Dunburg, looking at the Odervelder Gate.

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DUNBURG, ODERVELD -  Last year, according to the Citizen's Observatory on Tourism, a non-profit organization that compiles statistics about tourism and wants to help politicians in improving policies or find vulnerabilities in this sector, said that Dundorf saw an overall increase in touristic accesses, totalling around 36 millions of visitors, 62% percent of which come from within Artania. The most visiting nationality is Kundratis, followed by Dual Republican citizens, Dorvish people and Ikradonians - all nations with which Dundorf signed through the years comprehensive parterships or friendship treaties. Outside of Artania, the most visiting nationality are the Lourennais, coming from our longstanding ally, followed by Beiteynuese people, Seleyan people coming from Gaduridos, Aldegar, Lodamun and Kalistan - again nations that have all signed cooperation treaties with our country.

 

In economical terms, tourism represents a very highly valuable asset for our Federal Republic; bringing in between forty and forty-five billions of Marks every year, especially concentrated in the big centers such as Dunburg, Rabesburg and Nordenhaus, and marginally even in mountain areas over the east of the country, where tourism represents the #1 source of income for communities without industrial or service activities. The Observatory, though, highlighted that mass tourism in big cities can represent a major problems for both the local residents and the tourists themselves: the residents can suffer, as it is happening in certains neighborhoods of Rabesburg, from higher and unaffordable housing prices, as local apartments are transformed in tourist rentals, causing locals to move away from the city and sustain unnecessary moving costs. "On the long term, less taxpayers for the city and more reliance on a single economic sector could represent a major liability for the city's economy", says Professor of Economics Mathilde Brunner-Roth. 

For tourists, mass tourism represents instead a lowering in the quality of the services offered and therefore a less enjoyable stay in the city. These kinds of problems are not yet widespread and isn't a major problem now, but still authorities could take some steps to prevent the effects on housing that the Prof described, and maintain an medium/high-quality service for all tourists.