I have actually travelled quite a bit, and I always prefer hotels both because they’re cheap and because they’re not as damaging to local communities. Hotels usually include breakfast, and for relatively cheap you can also eat and have dinner there. Even when taking into account the price of the food and restaurants, they mostly still end up being cheaper.

Holiday rentals open in residential areas that are not built to handle big number of tourists.

Tourists will fill up residential areas even if there are no hotels/apartments in them. Cities themselves are not made to cope with that amount of tourists.

Residents don’t want to share buildings with tourists because they are laud and destroy the property.

This is an issue, but the main issue with rentals is that they drive up the prices and push people away to suburbs.

What the size of business has to do with anything? A local Rolex store will have as many employees as local fridge magnet store.

Rolex is not a local company, and will take most of that money away from the local economy. Small shops can be owned by locals, so most of the money spent there stays in the local economy.

Poor tourists only generate a lot of low paying jobs because you need a lot of them to make any real money. Cities are trying to bring more rich tourists to maintain the level of revenue and instead of creating low paying jobs serving poor tourists grow other sectors of economy.

I’m pretty sure Rolex pays its employees the same as any other company. Probably close to minimum wage. Rolex doesn’t care about creating high paying jobs.

No tourist city I’ve ever lived in has ever worried about rich tourists. In fact, most people want them gone first.

Hotels aren’t more expensive than rentals. Hotels generate jobs, which rentals don’t. That’s why hotels are preferred. Hotels also don’t drive up house prices, because they’re purpose built.

Rich tourists don’t generate more revenue for locals than poorer tourists. In fact, poorer tourists might generate more money for locals because they’re more likely to shop in small businesses.

Either way, the biggest part of the income does not go to locals, but big corporations and owners.

Tourism also kills other businesses and sources of income, making a city even more dependent in more tourism. It makes everything more expensive too, so the cost of life increases, driving out locals.

It is a strong source of income, for who?

Certainly not the citizens. Mostly property owners that don’t even live in the city.

I2P traffic isn’t that difficult to detect or block, mainly because bootstrapping a node requires connecting to known reseed servers. They can block those reseed servers and your node would never be able to connect to the network.

All of the energy that does calculations gets turned into heat. The only energy that doesn’t get directly turned into heat is the mechanical energy produced by the fans (which ends up turning into heat), and the electromagnetic radiation (which also ends up turning into heat).

If the calculations didn’t convert energy into heat, a computer would essentially use no power. You can think of a computer like a really complex wire. The power consumption you see is actually the heat loss of that wire. The less heat you lose, the more efficient the wire is.