Your friends at the guardian have seemingly been seeing the same things you have down south Brigid- so I don't think it's Accelerationist induced bias!

theguardian.com/world/2…

Quantity (of tourists) up + Quality (of tourists) down = a sad state of affairs it sounds like.

The fix would seemingly be for the local authorites to walk the tightrope of enforcing measures which limit quantity and improve quality- while not being too heavy handed and scaring the minimum volumes of required tourists away