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What holiday destination is the most concerning? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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If someone told you that they wanted to/have gone to this place you would be very suspicious of them. For me it's Theiland and The Philippines. Nothing good happens there.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your argument is shit. It’s basically β€œsome tourists bad, therefore all tourism bad.”

Like how dare people want to see the world?

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You misread. My argument is "most tourists bad, most tourism bad". Considering the crisis situation we are living in, especially climate change, people should ask themselves whether seeing the world is really that important. Questioning the tourism industry as a whole sure makes people defensive. I'm not against people seeing other places at all, I'd rather not have it happen in the way it's happening now as it's stupidly destructive and selfish. Can we set up things in a way where you can rather spend several months immersed in a different culture than rushing to somewhere for the two measly weeks your employer lets you out of your cubicle? Or is that too radical and we're doomed to forever keep building ugly resorts and turn everything into AirBnbs?

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah... I'm in Dubrovnik right now, as a tourist, and this place is fucked.

I feel quite bad about it, and how amazing it must have been before all the tourists (myself included) came along.

It's a crying shame, and I take your point.

This place, and so many like it have been destroyed by tourism.