I get that ports were historically very important and fishing is a source of food but none of that would have been relevant prior to the invention of boats.
I would think tens of thousands of years ago, the beach would be a place with no drinkable water, very little options for shelter, and very little options for food, yet we are drawn to it… why?
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Space to sit down and chill, water to go swim, surf etc, a cool breeze off the sea and open skies to bathe in the sun. I don’t think there’s any more to it. Obviously there is food on beaches but I don’t think that has anything to do with tourism and I’m not convinced this notion that there’s some kind of intrinsic instinctual attractive to beaches bears out in reality. Lots of people don’t go to beaches all that much and people don’t generally build settlements on them.
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