Stick to areas that appreciate and support  tourism. 1031 now while you can.

This will be a brand new property, I have plans to hire an interior designer to make it irresistible for tourism.

Any STR in the middle of the city with good access to 410 should have less seasonality than in areas more sensitive to tourism (like the areas I just mentioned).

Savannah brought in about 3 billion dollars from tourism last year, with approximately 14 million people visiting.  

If your goal is to scale and build a business, I'd go with the Tennessee or North Carolina side of the mountains, as their tourism traffic is much higher and in turn, returns are much higher.

My other 23 properties have been converted to STRs for refinery workers.There is no tourism in this town. 

There's no tourism, just lots of drugs, crime and unemployment.But there is a big petrochemical refinery here. 

Florida struggled because of the hit to tourism.

HUGE impact on your exit options as an investor).All of this said, there are some "towns" in NY state that have historically been dependent on tourism and are very unlikely to limit/ ban STRs.

However, looking back to the Great Recession Florida tourism was down about 10-13%.