Gas Prices and the Tourism Industry

The effects of rising gas prices on a city's tourism industry can potentially be both positive and negative. The negative effects are the ones we are all most familiar with. With rising costs, some families will have to cut back on their vacations or forgo taking a vacation at all. The costs to run tourism buses and planes as well as cruise ships will most likely have to rise to accommodate the rising fuel prices, and the higher prices could mean less business for them also.

What are harder to pinpoint are the unseen economies that could pose a danger to the tourist cutting back on vehicle maintenance to compensate for the price of gas, for example. Although there are legitimate economies that pose no

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