tourist hotels

[dick209 0]

I have a problem with the wanting of tourist hotels is this a codeing bug?  it appears to me that unless you are allowed to place tourist hotels you can.

also I am seeing a -5 for tourist bonus 

[Jack_Hawksmoor 0]

Executives and Elites will always want tourism, so if you have a map that doesn't include places to put tourism hotels you must trade for the the tokens (just like you have to trade for fuel on a map with no fuel stars).

However, on a map with no tourism stars you can dedicate a large area to be converted to woodland area (with the decoration tool, and apparantly a few avatar parks too) thereby forcibly creating a tourism zone that you can place your own tourist hotels on. This will not work though if you have any kind of pollution over the area (both the dark 'radius' pollution, or the creeping brown 'overlay' pollution that eventually covers the whole map. Use your toursim overlay to see it a bit more easily).

Check out the hints and tips sticky to see confirmation.

I have a polluted city with no tourism stars, so I am currently buying 10 tourism tokens to compensate for demand.

I hope I understood the question and this helps you out. If I misunderstood just ask again

[Sainty 0]

And you can as max get +3% bonus from Tourism.

If you dont have to much global pollution in your city you can force build tourist hotels on any map (even those with out tourism bonus). All you need to do is to build an attractive area for them - the hotel overlay must turns dark green. Avatar parks and some ploppable landmarks (like the UFO-restaurant) does the trick.

[dick209 0]

thank you i will try that

[Sainty 0]

Forgot to mention: you can delete the parks and the landmarks after you've placed the hotels.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

If you bulldoze parks and landmarks, would that affect the profitability of the hotels?

[Sainty 0]

Nope. You will still get 1000c per hotel.

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