Fighting the enemy culture | Tourism Civilization V - Brave New World Guide

The window of your influence on the neighboring civilizations

Tourism can be checked out in the tourism overview that includes, among others, your influence on the other civilizations.

Your tourism points are accumulated in the pool of the neighboring countries. The more tourism you have, the faster it grows. Tourism can be compared to a sword in the cultural clash. If your tourism points exceed the accumulated culture pool of another empire, you will gain influence on that empire, which nears you to the peaceful completion of this game.

If that country performs an action in relation to your empire, and it is not a friendly action, tourists will rebel. This can lead to the cities of the foreign empire will start siding with you. The Ideology influences this process additionally - if the ideologies of the countries are different, the process will be faster and more violent.

If you compare tourism to sword, then culture is the shield. First of all, the larger reserve of culture you have at your disposal, the more difficult you are to influence by the other countries. Apart from that, if your culture growth rate is higher than the tourism growth rate of the other countries, you rather are not going to face such a threat.

Tourism bonuses are awarded to a country that engages itself in active politics towards another country - it trades with that country, has open borders or shares religion with that country. Thanks to this, the interest in your country as a destination will become even higher.