However, I have no experience in adventure tourism per se. 

It has gone up a little bit and some smaller businesses have been moving here or sprouting up, but tourism and the hospital are still our main employment base.

Is it reliant on tourism?  

It may have been an excuse - regardless of what it was, I now find myself much further along and I am embracing the old me that was willing to take on those risks.

Set For Life by Scott Trench is a good resource for embracing frugality to prepare yourself to invest.Feel free to connect with me whenever.  

If they don't, it'll be far better to have a pro-active and uncomfortable convo with Aunt now and be well served in real estate instead of embracing comfort and having harder emotions to deal with down the line.Keep asking questions where others blindly "do" and you'll be unstoppable in all things!

(That's 3-4% with ZERO tourism dollars coming in for a solid 6 weeks along with a 20+% spike in unemployment.) 

My area is susceptible to hurricanes and is influenced by tourism, and I'd like to get into a few different markets over the next few years. 

Because I love managing vacation rentals (and that's of course a personal choice), I am currently looking at countries with high potential for tourism in the coming years still having very low real estate prices.

Embrace the problems, learn from them, and be better prepare for your future deals!