Tourism in the Lakes doesn’t enrich local communities | Letters

Dr Julie Carter says low-paid jobs and higher costs of living are the unfortunate legacy of ever-increasing visitor numbers to the Lake District. Plus Christine Muir on driving on fell tracks

Following your article on the pressures created by visitor numbers in national parks (Tourists’ cars may be banned from most popular parts of Lake District, 14 November), I would also question the common assumption that tourism makes local communities richer. It doesn’t. Tourism provides low-paid and largely unrewarding jobs to people who struggle to afford to live in honeypot areas, even when they have grown up there.

Tourism artificially inflates the cost of living and provides revenue for high-stakes investors, not for middle- or lower-income families. Neither does it help community cohesion, the provision of houses for those who can’t even afford one, let alone a second, or give space for other spheres of work.

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