Editing St Ives, Cornwall (section)

==Tourism==
[[File:St Ives Cornwall Harbour promenade.jpg|thumb|The harbourfront in summer]]
St Ives has been a popular [[tourist destination]] since the [[St Ives Bay Line]] opened in 1877, allowing visitors to easily get to the town.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of St Ives |url=https://www.intocornwall.com/engine/azabout_history.asp?guide=St+Ives |website=Into Cornwall |access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref> St Ives has been named the best UK seaside town by [[The Guardian]] in 2007,<ref name=G2007 /> and by the British Travel Awards in 2010 and 2011.<ref name=JAT /><ref>{{cite web |title=Cornwall – UK's best, again |url=https://businesscornwall.co.uk/news-by-industry/awards/2010/11/cornwall-uks-best-again/ |website=Business Cornwall |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=5 November 2010}}</ref> In 2020, St Ives was named the most expensive seaside resort in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lisa Letcher |title=Cornwall is home to the most expensive seaside resort in all of the UK |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-home-most-expensive-seaside-4357886 |website=Cornwall Live |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=26 July 2020}}</ref> The town has the second highest visitor-related spend in the UK, with tourists spending £85 million per year.<ref name=SITA>{{cite web |title=About SITA |url=https://www.stives-cornwall.co.uk/about-sita/ |website=St Ives Tourism Association |access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref> Around 540,000 [[day trip]]pers and 220,000 staying tourists visit St Ives every year, with the tourism industry accounting for around 2,800 jobs in the area.<ref name=SITA />

Like [[Tourism in Cornwall|in the rest of Cornwall]], tourism has been criticised for bringing about problems in [[Seasonal industry|seasonal work]] and [[affordable housing]] in St Ives.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Kate Newell |title=Historic characterisation for regeneration St Ives |url=https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/ee1kwbt1/st-ives_report_main2.pdf |website=[[Cornwall Council]] |publisher=Cornwall and Scilly Urban Survey |access-date=5 September 2021 |page=10 |date=September 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Claire Carponen |title=Downalong, St. Ives, Offers a Bustling, Artistic Slice of English Coastline |url=https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/downalong-st-ives-offers-a-bustling-artistic-slice-of-english-coastline-226109 |website=[[Mansion Global]] |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=3 April 2021}}</ref> In 2016, St Ives residents voted to ban [[Holiday cottage|second-home owners]] from buying new build housing, with 83% in favour.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Oscar Quine |title=St Ives backs ban on holiday homes amid 'housing crisis' |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/st-ives-backs-ban-holiday-homes-amid-housing-crisis-5913 |website=[[i (British newspaper)|i News]] |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=6 May 2016}}</ref> This came after average house prices in the town had been pushed up to over £320,000, almost 14 times the median annual earnings of someone in Cornwall. In 2019, the [[Financial Times]] reported that average house price was £351,800, saying that the new build policy had failed to stem the number of second homes.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Elliott Klime |title=Has St Ives' second home ban backfired? |url=https://www.ft.com/content/6abb85e8-c349-11e9-ae6e-a26d1d0455f4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/6abb85e8-c349-11e9-ae6e-a26d1d0455f4 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=[[Financial Times]] |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=13 September 2019}}</ref> St Ives also faces a shortage of [[rental]]s; in 2021, while there were over 1,000 properties in the town available for short-term [[holiday let]], there was only one long-term house available to rent.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Frankie Adkins |title=A tale of two Cornwalls: Food banks amid luxury holiday lets |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/8/18/a-tale-of-two-cornwalls-food-banks-amid-luxury-holiday-lets |website=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=18 August 2021}}</ref>