We’ll need the money they bring in to feed the city’s economic refugees
” refers. While I can sympathise with the idea of tourists having an effect on the environment — both while travelling here and being here — it does seem a bit far-fetched to suggest that removing them will solve our environmental problems.
When Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says in the Daily Maverick that we’re likely to have 2.5-million people living in the city as a result of urbanisation and migration by 2025, and 10-million “within a generation”, it does rather put the removal of a few tourists into perspective — especially as they’ll help feed a portion of the “economic refugees” through taxes and jobs.
Maybe there’s a bit of a “dog in the manger” attitude here? Surely the problem in the Cape is that it’s a victim of its own success? Making it the same as the rest of the country will chase away the tourists and the internationally mobile Saffers, and even the economic migrants.
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