There is a Slate Star Codex article[1] talking about how people die in hospitals. A common trend is that families that lived close to their elderly relatives are the most ready to accept when there is nothing more to do, while families that "fly in" to visit their sick elderly relatives often refuse to give up and try to do anything to keep them alive a bit more.
One interpretation is that guilt plays a factor here.
In my opinion something vaguely similar happens here, in globalized times everyone is citizen of bigger and bigger places and feel progressively weaker connections to local culture. To this you can add that this local culture is under constant pressure from new external actors (I imagine that more than a few people tried to build new hotels in the middle of Venice).
One interpretation is that guilt plays a factor here.
In my opinion something vaguely similar happens here, in globalized times everyone is citizen of bigger and bigger places and feel progressively weaker connections to local culture. To this you can add that this local culture is under constant pressure from new external actors (I imagine that more than a few people tried to build new hotels in the middle of Venice).
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191122042205/https://slatestar...