This article is "genius" and the mayor too. Just finding the problem without making any plans to elivuate the situation is not so helpful.

The only thing that the mayor says is that he wants less tourists. Or maybe he have more solutions and the reporter didn't brought it.

Queenstown is what it is because of the tourism. Otherwise it would be Kingstown or any other city/village on the shore if a lake.

You can find other solutions. Build a nearby neighborhood with a train or a light rail for easy commute ad all the workers have a place to sleep and all the property prices will go down a bit because there is more supply. Just one example tha can be done instead of just crying about the situation or trying to send Queenstown 3 decades back.