Tourism in colonies

[Bril]

Any idea how to deal with this? I set up a second city, established a trade route with a nearby AI town but when I placed my hotel within my colony I never got a single visitor from said city. I later noticed that the trade route was actually linked back to my primary city instead and it was receiving the tourism for it. So now I can not get a decent tourism value in my colony and I am basically stuck with low happiness due to it.

[Smart Cookie]

I am having this issue as well. 23% tourism happiness in second colony but connected two trade routes to it and a hotel and all going to main city.

[Let]

I have been trying to figure this out as well :(

[Julerra]

Any solution for this?

[kbmodigity]

Put hotels in major foreign cities. You need to have a high enough friendliness with them or whatever but gift them a few thousand gold and they will be your best friend.

If you already have hotels in foreign cities click on the hotels and it will tell you where the guests are from. If you are only seeing your home city you most likely need to build more.

If you never messed with the limited diplomacy in this game I highly recommend it. The bonuses you get off the embassy and foreign quarter and actually quite good.

Edit: You need a trade route set up with the foreign major city too. If they are across the water and they dont have a sea trading port (or you dont either) you cant set up a trade route. Sux if they are far away and never expand their cities towards the water when playing with only a few AIs at a time like I do.