by Tjeerd Royaards

Cartoon showing a beach littered with plastic waste and a dried-up seabed covered in dead fish and trash. A display on a pole shows a current temperature of 49 degrees Celsius. Poor people are sitting on the beach staring at the dried up sea. Part of the beach is cleaned up and cordoned off, and rich people are on a red carpet standing in line to enter this part. A sign at the entrance reads 'Escape Reality - Luxury Resort' Inside, people are sipping cocktails and lounging on beach beds, while a giant display shows a beach sunset. A bank of airconditioning units blows cool air over the beach beds.
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a partial fallacy inasmuch as people who search out more authentic places tend to do a different kind of tourism, although that can still be annoying, even destructive, for the locals.

OTOH there's something to it, just like gentrification of urban areas. It's a slow process, and when it's complete some people seek out more "authentic" places again.

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