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討論番組

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Key vocabulary

benefit, blessing
asymmetry
lumping together as one
to leave out, to do without
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司会

Host: There is discontent from local communities over the rise in tourist numbers. First, what do you think?

A

A: I don't deny the economic effect. But while the benefit is confined to a minority of businesses, the burden falls on residents as a whole. That asymmetry is the heart of the matter, I think.

司会

Host: And you?

B

B: I take the point. But "burden" covers many things, and the remedies for crowding and for litter or noise are entirely different. Lumping them together actually makes them harder to address.

A

A: I agree with that. In fact, much of the residents' discontent is directed less at the sheer numbers than at their living space being treated as an object of tourism.

B

B: If so, adjusting volume through entry limits alone is not enough. The question is how to convey to visitors that this is somewhere people live.

司会

Host: So not reducing numbers, but remaking the relationship?

A

A: Yes. At the least, I think any remedy that leaves that out will not last.