The short term rental business where we are is booming and our neighborhood is at the top of desirability for this type of tourism business, so we want to capitalize on this.

The tourism market stays pretty busy year round.

Plus its a beautiful town, prices seem entirely reasonable, plenty of tourism in summer for hiking, nature, events, etc and the same in winter for skiing, snowmobiling, and the likes.  

Homeowners pay based on property values, while hotel/motels pay based on net income, which is much lower.This tax could ultimately harm the tourism market, which in turn could bring down overall real estate values.A lodging tax on top of vacationers’ rental payment could easily lead some to go elsewhere for their vacation.

I can do a deeper research for you if you want, however, to be able to answer you now, I can tell you that the vacancy rate can be found by calling the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.

Ideally, I'd like to see rentals from the annual music festivals as well as general tourism in the So-Cal area (goal: 10% or greater ROI). 

When you are looking at buying a rental property, really investigate the tourism trends.

The military realignment to the Pacific, higher defense spending, Qualcomm going after Intel, tourism is hot, retirement community growth, etc.

Wondering ho long this will effect tourism in the area.

The same happened to Dubai a few years ago and it was not pretty, but Calgary will be worse as there is no other attraction there than high paid oil jobs (Dubai has tourism and a bit of financial industry as well).