ORIGINAL: zgrssd
"I had a bunch of Tourist questions:
- is Tourism Income taken out of the Private economy of whoever is owning those tourists, or is it generated from thin air?
- do Tourists actually travel around within the Region of space, or just go Home->The one place to visit->Back home?"
Yes, the State runs these bases to encourage/protect tourism, so the tourists that travel there on private sector passenger ships do end up in effect transferring money from the private economy to the state.
Tourism is focused on one destination, so they'll pick a spot that has high scenery and is relatively close to the world they normally live on and go there. For this reason, high scenery worlds or bases that are near your most populated worlds tend to perform the best as far as generating tourism income. A low scenery site far away from everything may not attract any real tourism.
Regards,
- Erik