It is a little-known fact that service exports account for more than 70 percent of U.S. jobs, with travel and transportation earning more than $230 billion dollars annually.
Here in New Hampshire, total direct traveler spending exceeds $5 billion dollars; and food preparation and service alone contribute nearly eight percent of all in-state jobs.
You've skipped over the part where in order to cater to the tourism industry, wealthy investors buy up housing around the State, upper valley included, at top dollar prices and then rent them out as AirBnB's to tourists, in the process pricing out people who actually live and work here from being able to buy a home. That's what people have against tourists - the fact that their continued presence here expedites the process of gentrification and prices locals out of home ownership. The rude and contemptible attitude that a lot of these tourists have is just adding insult to injury.
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You've skipped over the part where in order to cater to the tourism industry, wealthy investors buy up housing around the State, upper valley included, at top dollar prices and then rent them out as AirBnB's to tourists, in the process pricing out people who actually live and work here from being able to buy a home. That's what people have against tourists - the fact that their continued presence here expedites the process of gentrification and prices locals out of home ownership. The rude and contemptible attitude that a lot of these tourists have is just adding insult to injury.
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