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Spain and Italy come to mind. I’m from NYC and while I might not like tourists in my way, I welcome them and help them find their way around town; tourists are a not insignificant part of the NYC economy, and also I’m a strong believer in hospitality
88 billion a year apparently gets spent by tourists in NYC, that's a bootload of money for even a city as big as NYC.
Of course the negative part is that a lot of those dollars get spent at the tourist traps, not small local businesses. But I know when I was there, I walked around and tried to visit completely unknown looking pizza places and bars too. And a taco truck.