Imagine just being one of the best players in the world and people flocking to battle you.
The best Ice Trainer is in Maine and suddenly that becomes a great tourist destination.
A great Steel Trainer is the owner of a cafe near the Eiffel Tower, and casually sips coffee while battling you from a wirework chair
Two famous Water and Fire Trainers that live in Hawaii, and sometimes just randomly switch places to mess with people.
The best ghost type trainers are in Cairo (The Pyramids are giant tombs) and by Shinto Temples.
The best Electric trainer runs a pokemon-themed store in Akihabara.
Rock Type? Grand Canyon Tour Guide.
But then there will be the weird ones, trainers worth visiting who specialize in Dragons, but live in the middle of a city, say, Lagos. Or a Legendary collector who lives in London, but has been around the world. Chasing down that one couple who travels around the world battling only with a level 99 Sandslash.
Professional marathon (Or what have you) runners who become professional pokemon breeders because of their enormous step counts.
Imagine, in some years, when the pokemon generation is older, heads of state who tweet out, ‘Found Arceus in White House. Rest safe knowing it guards this nation’
Imagine people setting up small shops to do nothing mor than to battle trainers who pay to test their skill. Real world pokemon gyms if you will.And full on global competitions that ends in japan at gamefreak where you battle four of the strongest people in the world before meeting him. Satoshi Tajiri. The creator of pokemon as the eternal pokemon champion. Your final battle before completing your journey.