Maybe Finn Gillespie-Petersen did not write the sub-head. There's no mention of 'double-sided coin' in the body of the piece.

'two sides of the same coin' is a metaphor for two things that are a part of a single whole. 'a double-edged sword' is a metaphor for something that can be both favourable and unfavourable at the same time.

The metaphor in this sub-head seems to be a confused mixture of the twain.

In magic, a double-sided coin is simply a trick coin with both sides stamped the same, which clearly isn't relevant here as there's no assertion that tourism is some kind of magic trick.

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