Why did tourism in the Catskills die out?

Question

I was just looking at a before and after picture of some resort areas, and I’m puzzled.

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Answer 1

Until the 1960’s, the Catskills were a popular vacation spot for middle class families in New York to go in the summers. Air travel was very expensive and only for the rich, and middle class families would only go where they could drive for vacations.

Then once large jets came on the scene, that made air travel affordable for the middle class. When it did, Northern and Midwestern families could go to Florida, California, Hawaii, the Caribbean, and Europe for vacation instead of the Catskills and other resorts within driving distance, and those places declined.