Town to City 1.0 Update: Tourism, Hotels, New Map

Town to City 1.0 is the update to open when your city is stable and you want a new reason to redesign districts. Use the feature tracker above to mark what you have checked in the current build before moving roads, hotels, warehouses, or landmarks. The official Steam announcement confirms a brand-new campaign map, Rocemarée, with two monumental ruins, three hotels for tourists, scenic tourist routes, Lighthouse and Obelisk monuments, 11 new requests, new house designs, late-game Bourgeoisie mechanics, town hall work, the Art Atelier building, and beach-themed decorations.

Do not start by guessing exact hotel numbers. Start by checking whether your current town can support visitors without breaking citizen happiness.

Last checked: May 28, 2026. Official Steam announcements confirm the 1.0 tourism update details. Check your current build before treating hotel costs, unlock rules, route scoring, autosave behavior, or request rewards as final.

Quick Answer

Use 1.0 as a tourism and save-check update. Stabilize happiness, spread warehouses across districts, upgrade key roads, create one attractive hotel area, then test a short route. Mark the tracker for Rocemarée, hotels, tourist routes, Lighthouse, Obelisk, requests, Art Atelier, City Hall, beach decorations, and autosave before committing to a full rebuild.

1.0 Current-Build Checklist

The tracker above is for save-specific progress. Use the table below as the planning read: what each feature is for, and what to check before spending.

1.0 feature	Good first move	Check in your build
Rocemarée	Open the new campaign map in a test save	Coast shape, ruin locations, hotel spacing, and first requests
Tourism	Start with one attractive serviced district	Exact unlock condition and first tourism quest
Three hotels	Start with Inn, then compare Boutique Hotel and Grande Hotel later	Cost, capacity, tier differences, footprint, and workers
Lighthouse and Obelisk	Use them as real route anchors	Whether the route and services around them are strong enough
Two monumental ruins	Treat them as scenic route stops	Road access, nearby services, and route length
Tour routes	Connect hotel, landmark, services, and return path	Route editing, scoring, and visitor behavior
11 requests	Read request text before rebuilding	Whether the objective fits your planned district
Art Atelier	Tie it to Bourgeoisie and culture routes	Worker, service, and unlock requirements
Beach decorations	Use them to support Rocemarée appeal	Do not decorate before the hotel-road-service chain works
City Hall departments	Check late-game civic pressure before adding tourism jobs	Department unlocks, worker needs, and service effects
Autosave settings	Tune before a large rebuild	Manual autosave delete and save-risk habits
New town	Decide whether you want a fresh-city test	Starting position, map pressure, and route shape
Older saves	Back up before redesigning	Whether existing cities unlock tourism cleanly

Do not rebuild the whole city just to see the update. Test one route, learn the current scoring rules, then decide whether the old town deserves a redesign.

What Tourism Changes

Tourism gives your city another audience. Citizens care about services, jobs, goods, and happiness. Tourists likely care about hotels, landmarks, attractive streets, routes, and convenience. The overlap is good: a beautiful, well-serviced city should be easier to turn into a tourist destination than a city with long warehouse trips and unhappy outskirts.

Use the Town to City Tourism Readiness Check to decide whether hotels should start now. Use the Town to City Farming Guide first if food stalls, fields, warehouses, workers, or happiness are already unstable. Use this page for the wider 1.0 feature checklist and request router.

For route-only planning, open Town to City Tourist Routes. That page has a focused route workbench that matches requests to route shapes, shows route nodes, diagnoses blockers, and copies one build order.

Official 1.0 Request List

The Steam announcement names 11 new requests. Use this list as a tracker while testing Rocemarée and tourism routes:

Request	First read
Appropriate obelisk	Obelisk or monument placement
Bestest route	Tourist route quality
Dear mayor	Civic or City Hall route
Forest getaway	Scenic route or lodging near nature
Harmless fun	Leisure or visitor activity
Motherly light	Lighthouse or coastal landmark
Pillar to roof	Monument or building chain
Sight for shore eyes	Beach or coastal route
Sleep little ducky	Hotel or lodging route
Station to station	Transit and route connection
That’ll be a dime	Tourism income or payment check

Use the Request Router above to filter and tick these names, then open the matching Town to City Route Workbench with that request preselected.

Save Choice

The first decision is whether to test 1.0 in an old city or start fresh.

Situation	Better move
You want to learn the new town	Start a fresh save
You want to test tourism quickly	Use an older stable city after backing up or duplicating the save
Your old city has bad logistics	Start fresh or fix warehouses before tourism
You care about perfect layout	Start fresh and plan space around hotels
You just want to see features	Use a casual test save first

Older saves are best for fast feature testing. New saves are better for clean long-term layout.

Old-Save Test Route

Step	What to do	Stop if…
1	Load a stable city and check average happiness	It is below 60% or falling
2	Check warehouse coverage around the planned hotel district	Shops already struggle to receive goods
3	Place or identify one landmark stop	The district has no services or road spine
4	Add one hotel, not a full resort district	Workers become tight immediately
5	Draw one short route	The route tool pushes visitors through empty or awkward streets
6	Watch quest text, income, and worker pressure	A quest requires a rebuild you do not want

Hotel Planning

Hotels should not be isolated trophies. Place them where tourists can reach attractions and where the city can support services. Until exact stats are known, plan around location quality:

Hotel placement	Good for	Risk
Near station / entry road	First tourist contact	Can overload early service area
Near town center	Easy landmark access	Competes with citizen services
Near scenic district	Strong visitor route	May need extra road and warehouse support
Isolated luxury area	Controlled layout	Weak unless routes and services are strong

If hotel tiers matter, location will still matter. A luxury hotel far from landmarks is likely worse than a modest hotel on a strong route.

Tour Route Planning

Sketch routes before spending heavily. The tool and current scoring should guide the final shape.

Route piece	Planning note
Start point	Station, hotel cluster, or main road
Landmark stop	Choose distinct visual or service-rich areas
Road quality	Upgrade the roads tourists and workers share
Hotel spacing	Avoid one far hotel that forces long walking routes
Backup path	Keep room to move landmarks after scoring is known

The best early route is simple: hotel, central landmark, park or scenic district, then return through services. Expand after you understand the scoring in your build.

What To Verify First

Check this order before committing a long 1.0 save:

1. Steam page, news post, or in-game version for the current build.
2. Whether your old save loads cleanly.
3. Tourism unlock condition.
4. First hotel cost and placement rules.
5. Landmark route scoring.
6. Tourist income timing.
7. Tourism quest rewards.
8. New map differences.

Treat exact values as current-build facts, not permanent rules. Town to City is past the pure planning stage now, but balance and update behavior can still move.

Related Guides

• Town to City Tourism Guide - hotels, routes, landmarks, and tourism checks.
• Town to City Tourist Routes - route scoring, hotels, landmarks, Rocemarée, and common route failures.
• Town to City Farming Guide - fields, warehouses, food stalls, worker routes, and happiness before tourism.
• Town to City Layout Guide - warehouses, roads, districts, and connections.
• Town to City Beginner Guide - first-city setup.
• Town to City Hub - full guide map.

Sources

• Town to City on Steam
• Official Steam announcements
• Gematsu Town to City launch coverage
• IGN official 1.0 release date trailer