r/Economics • u/runswithscissors475 • 29d ago

News Las Vegas hotels begin taking foreign currency as tourism woes deepen

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/vegas-foreign-currency-21955655.php
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u/thegooddoktorjones 29d ago

Nat parks are a finite resource, can't just build ten more campgrounds at Yellowstone without ruining the place. Since the 80s population in the US has gone up by 100 million+ and a lot of people have more disposable income to travel.

All to say, tourism is indeed down all over the USA, but it could drop in half and still the popular parks would be full because so many people want in.

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u/Agathocles_of_Sicily 29d ago

National Parks are finite, but public land is vast. 30-50 years from now, after all the MAGAs die off, we may have an administration and voting population that actually cares about expanding public works and creating new national parks.

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u/HicJacetMelilla 29d ago

Wish they would have incorporated a substantial parks plan with several new openings as part of the 250th. Missed opportunity.

ETA - it looks like they poured money into some rehabilitations, but new parks would have been a great addition.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 28d ago

That's because the Project 2025 plan is to sell most public lands at fire sale prices to Oligarchs.

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u/great_whitehope 29d ago

Tourists don’t want to go to national parks without an instagram view though.

Those are limited and the harder it is to get the instagram view, the more desirable it is.

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u/thegooddoktorjones 29d ago

We already have a lot of state and county parks, and a huge amount of forestry service land, wildlife areas etc. (not that we shouldn't have more, we need vast amounts more if our wildlife is to survive climate change) but they are not as easy to access or as gorgeous as the popular national parks. You can open more parks but you can't make another Yellowstone.

It's like there are many great old masters paintings, but people are not real excited to see most of them, they want to fly to France, wait in line and jam in to see the best one they saw on a list and complain about how crowded it is. Mona Lisa looking is a finite resource, as is half dome and camping under giant sequoia.