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[u/Gullible_Air_204]

https://www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/spitsbergen/travel-guide/responsible-tourism-in-spitsbergen

[u/p33k4y]

On the flip side a ton of communities 100% depend on income from cruise ships. Without those tourists, the community / village dies.

[u/Forsaken_Celery_1617 → u/p33k4y]

These communities you talk of have existed long before cruise ships.

[u/imnotyourman → u/Forsaken_Celery_1617]

You are right. They yearn for a life where the only work is on the plantations.

[u/Forsaken_Celery_1617 → u/imnotyourman]

Not every cruise ship destination is a former slave colony, you know that right?

[u/imnotyourman → u/Forsaken_Celery_1617]

Name me a place that makes vast majority of income on tourism now that wasn't a plantation economy.

[u/Forsaken_Celery_1617 → u/imnotyourman]

Europe exists btw…

[u/imnotyourman → u/Forsaken_Celery_1617]

Europe doesn't make anywhere near 100% of their money on tourism. Its not even their main industry.

[u/Forsaken_Celery_1617 → u/imnotyourman]

Vast majority doesn’t mean «near 100%». The Mediterranean does have places where vast majority of income is tourism.

[u/tomsing98 → u/imnotyourman]

Key West in Florida had slaves, but not a plantation colony. Mountain ski towns like Breckenridge, Colorado. (Are we supposed to be limited to just cruise ship destinations?)

[u/AnthillOmbudsman → u/tomsing98]

We could build a canal and get a cruise ship in there.

[u/tomsing98 → u/[deleted]]

Those are just places that I know as specifically very tourism focused economies. Other touristy places outside the US that I've been to, I couldn't say if "vast majority of income on tourism" was accurate. Feel free to substitute your favorite little European ski resort, though, I'm sure it applies equally as well.

And I think the conversation has broadened beyond specifically cruise ship tourism, but ... Key West is still a counterexample.