The mantra of Scottsdale’s slow growth and no growth advocates (and there is a difference) goes something like this. Scottsdale should curtail the energetic recruitment of new business and corporate headquarters like Axon, Nationwide and others because they can foster height and growth that intrudes on the character of the city. Likewise, new development or redevelopment should be smallish, no matter its location, for similar reasons. By doing both Scottsdale can retain wide open spaces and that which has made it special and, very importantly, keep tourists coming back to a unique city rather than become Anywhere, USA. 
While there are deficiencies with such a philosophy, just as there are with those who proselytize for relentless growth, at least the “Tourism First” chorus has a coherence. Until it doesn’t.
For that governing philosophy to work you must actually, well, support tourism. This could take many forms but likely, among other things, involves the support of new hotels, special events with both proven records and the promise to become the same, existing and new public art, funding for tourism promotion in accordance with voter approvals and listening to tourism leaders especially during these worst of times the industry will ever know.
Unfortunately, there are disturbing signs that even tourism may be strangled by those who have long pronounced it as savior. Let’s hope, as Pink Floyd once sang, this is nothing more than a momentary lapse of reason.
There is nothing wrong with being more discerning. But there is if the city becomes Stopsdale, especially when it comes to tourists.