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102: Is Your Destination Chasing Luxury at the Expense of Its Locals? (Shannon Lowery)
Luxury hotels keep going up. Affordable housing doesn't. As destinations chase the top of the K-shaped economy, the residents who staff the front desks and pour the pints are getting priced out - and without them, the luxury experience falls apart too.
Longtime listener Shannon Lowery, formerly of Visit Savannah and now living in Dublin, brings the thesis: the K-shaped economy isn't new, it's the same problem in a different costume on both sides of the Atlantic. Stuart opens with Stu's News on Hook & Barrel being named TripAdvisor's No. 1 casual dining restaurant in the U.S., and what its…
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