# Tourism

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Name | Tourism |
| Tier | service_luxury |
| Elasticity | elastic |
| Base Price (Tractus) | 100 |
| Bulk Class | non_physical |
| Unit | contracts |
| Production Ubiquity | concentrated |
| Demand Model | market |
| Commission Certified | No |
| Compact Contested | No |
| Shadow Viable | No |
| Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
| Description | Cultural tourism, prestige destinations. Cannot freight the experience. |

Tourism is the experience of being in a specific place for its own value — Kvitfjell's marble quarry district, the Braemar highland circuit, the VGV valley harvest walk, Ostmark's old-city precincts with five centuries of intact Germanic-Scandinavian architecture. These experiences are location-bound by definition: the marble is at Kvitfjell, the wine landscape is in the VGV valley, the architecture is at Ostmark. No amount of holo-reconstruction elsewhere reproduces the specific status and social meaning of actually having been there.

Concentrated production ubiquity reflects the rarity of genuine destination experiences. Most systems have functional hospitality; only a handful have the cultural depth, natural spectacle, or historical significance to generate tourism demand from beyond their immediate corridor. These destinations are permanently supply-limited — Kvitfjell cannot expand its marble district, Ostmark cannot replicate its founding-era architecture, and Braemar's highland ecology is biologically constrained. Demand can expand; supply cannot. This creates the structural premium that distinguishes tourism from ordinary hospitality.

At 100 Tractus per contract — the highest base price in the service tier — tourism represents discretionary spending by travelers for whom the trip itself is the product. Elastic demand means tourism is disproportionately sensitive to income shocks across the Reach; prestige travel contracts sharply during economic downturns in ways that basic hospitality does not. The economic signal value is therefore in the gap: strong tourism spending indicates that significant populations across the Reach have disposable income sufficient to plan multi-hop journeys, which is a leading indicator of broad economic health rather than just local conditions at the destination.