Can Tourism Save a City or Only Hollow It Out?

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Aug 27, 2026 · 26m

Jerusalem is betting big on tourism, targeting ten million annual visitors by 2030. But nearly half its families already live below the poverty line, and the jobs tourism creates — hospitality, retail, guiding — pay below the city average. The hosts explore whether tourism inevitably reorganizes cities around visitors, hollowing out local culture and creating a dual-track economy where residents and tourists barely share space. Then they hunt for counterexamples: Barcelona, which cultivates high-yield professional tourism; Kyoto, which caps volume and protects local crafts through…