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Extreme nationalism is generally bad for tourism and tourism is generally good for economies. Sad to see Japan slip this way, of course, but they're not alone.
Tourism has its own negative externalities (i.e. it's own kind of "polution") that negativelly affect the rest of the Economy if it gets too much and might even kill the very things which attract tourists. This is generally manifested as a rising cost of housing and general cost of living in touristic areas which pushes out the local residents and businesses.
Also tourism doesn't employ highly qualified people, but rather people with basic education.
So it's only good for economies up to a certain level of tourism and how much that is depends on how much that's a high value added Economy (roughly, how wealthy and developed a nation is) - much higher levels of Tourism are still a good thing in, say, a mid-development level Economy with basic universal education where before Tourism most people worked in the Primary sector, than they are in an Economy of high value added industries employing higly qualified people: a country can have an Economy where Tourism is a high percentage to pull itself up to about the level of the poorer European countries, but no matter how much you have of it Tourism will never turn a country into a high tech powerhouse, beyond a certain point quite the contrary (not least because high costs of living due to it kill starting companies, even high tech ones, because they make the costs of business go up at multiple levels).
A bit of Tourism can be a good thing, a lot of Tourism is only a good thing if the alternative was an economy of mostly Primary sector activities.
Okay, good points, but have you had to live where tourists visit?
Yes, both in places that are overcrowed, and places with a healthy tourism industry without overcrowding. If kept at a number that doesn't disrupt the lives of people trying to do productive work, tourists can even have a positive effect on local life.
An important part of keeping the local population happy is to completely ban airbnb, so people can still afford to live in tourist areas
Sadly only a few big cities are doing that
That's the idea, but it's an idea that is hard to achieve these day, where a single viraled socmed post can turn the place upside down in a matter of days.
Mayday, a very popular Taiwanese band, went to Beijing for their concert recently, and they took a picture of the lead singer in front of a toilet, then soon after the place is flooded with fans lining up to take a picture of a toilet with the similar post, turning locals life into hell.
Some tourism influencer(dry-heave) can just post "this 100 years old shop is closing next month due to the lack of customer" and by next week the street is unwalkable.
It's an issue that's hard to solve at time, and if it's super crowded, they might have a hard time to do any festival because it's very likely lead to another stampede. They could've redirect the tourism to another city though.
Hell, I try not to even visit places where too many tourists visit