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Tourism is bad. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by MintyFresh@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It's time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.

And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they're doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.

And then they'll turn around and claim they're "helping the local economy" trying to justify it. It's colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.

And wtf is wrong with you, you can't relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can't be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y'all need to chill it with the air travel!

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[–] horse@feddit.org 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You do realise there are other types of holiday than flying around the globe to lie by the pool in a country with cheap labour, right? I think I've taken like one return flight in the last 10 years (excluding work trips). My last holidays I've travelled to by train to other countries in Europe. My next holiday I'm travelling one way by train and one way by bike.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Dope! Ya I do realize, I suppose I could have worded it better. That sounds really nice and I hope you have a wonderful time!

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 4 points 3 days ago

I mostly only go by bus or train for a few days here or there. That still feels like imposing a burden unless I camp, which I normally only do in the summer.

Many of the local places I go to have the same problems though, seasonally overran with tourists, all homes converted to airb+b , crowds out the local economy and drive out the local people (to the benefit of the local landowners). Ideally there'd be limits on what fraction of housing can be used as short term.

But I think generally regulation of land use and property rental prices could be beneficial - another unpopular opinion. "Oh no, we can't trust the oiks not to appoint despotic regulators, nor can we hold them to account, so it's much better have a elite landowning upper class instread".