The growth drivers (tourism and baby boomers) are independent factors, and the Island where we are developing has over an 85% occupancy rate for nightly and weekly rentals.  

If a metro has 50% of the people work in the tourism industry most likely that area will get hit worse than area with only 10% who work in the tourism industry in case of a recession? 

The main reason I felt comfortable making that investment and move was due to how much travel and tourism traffic there is here in Nashville.

Fran Hunter in the bastrop county tourism office sent the emails and was very helpful and they seem to be genuinely interested in building the short-term rental market and making it a positive thing for both sides - if you're going to call someone to discuss, I would call her (you will have to look her up as it won't let me post the details).

Tourism is on the rise here.

I used to work up there and the tourism season is very short.

Anyways, here we go....There's obviously places that are in the middle of nowhere and no tourism flow to speak of (North Dakota comes to mind, no offense to any highly successful vacation rental investor there *crickets*) so those are not great places to start a vacation rental if there is not something nearby for people to go visit.

This city thrives on tourism so STRs are usually welcome but there are areas that want to keep it to residents only. 3. 

Tourism seems to increase consistently and if the economy tanks, regional tourism increases. 

Rents tend to run ~ $1/sqft.Conversely, the STR scene feeds off the other facet of the greater Pensacola rental market: tourism.