Churches don't charge admission, but even tourists eat, and buy postcards, and other touristy type stuff; money still gets put into the local economy. Like it or not, that's how even the cure will eventually get fed.
Pretty shabby of the tour organisations to not cough up a share though, but not surprising - I'd bet it's a pretty cutthroat business and hey, if the doors are open...
A Frenchwoman dismissing Americans as being condescending, that's pretty rich too. :-)
Having now read TFA (it's that or figure out how to set up Outlook to IMAP) ... well, I can understand where they're coming from (it's what I figured), I just don't have a lot of sympathy. I lived in Nova Scotia, as you know, and we got more than our share of tourists too. "How quaint!" they'd say, "Where do we find the lobster and tidal bore, we only have a few hours in town you see."
You get sheep everywhere there's tourists; you can either figure out how to shear them, sigh and roll your eyes and moan about it, or else close up shop. Not much other choice.
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Date: Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:11 pm (UTC)Pretty shabby of the tour organisations to not cough up a share though, but not surprising - I'd bet it's a pretty cutthroat business and hey, if the doors are open...
A Frenchwoman dismissing Americans as being condescending, that's pretty rich too. :-)
Having now read TFA (it's that or figure out how to set up Outlook to IMAP) ... well, I can understand where they're coming from (it's what I figured), I just don't have a lot of sympathy. I lived in Nova Scotia, as you know, and we got more than our share of tourists too. "How quaint!" they'd say, "Where do we find the lobster and tidal bore, we only have a few hours in town you see."
You get sheep everywhere there's tourists; you can either figure out how to shear them, sigh and roll your eyes and moan about it, or else close up shop. Not much other choice.