• Cold Hotman
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    42 years ago

    Depends on what the end goals are. If it is to generate tourism, of course.

    And what do you mean by “evil”?

    • @d1tt0@lemmy.ml
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      42 years ago

      My guess here is “evil” is the ecological impact of travel. High CO2 outputs from aircraft and prolonged automobile travel.

      The rebuttal is: take lower carbon impact travel options.

      IMO, traveling is inevitable and, maybe, necessary. There are few other ways to experience a culture and understand a people without it.

      • Sr Estegosaurio
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        92 years ago

        My guess here is “evil” is the ecological impact of travel. High CO2 outputs from aircraft and prolonged automobile travel.

        But that’s a problem related to transportation in general. Not due to tourism. Aside from that we really need to switch out current ways of transportation to better, safer and clean ones.

          • Sr Estegosaurio
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            I live in one of those countries. I can confirm. Also not having a diverse economy can be a a big trouble. Obviusly an economy purely based on tourism would suck. But that does not make tourism itself bad. Traveling is an enriching experience.

            Edit: fixed a typo.

  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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    32 years ago

    I live in a big tourist area and american/German tourists are the stereotype you imagine them to be

  • @marmulak@lemmy.ml
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    32 years ago

    It may be necessary for some economies, but otherwise it’s also inevitable. At the very least it must be tolerated

  • SudoDnfDashY
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    22 years ago

    Yeah. Tourists are annoying, and can kill your culture. But they pay the bills.

  • Inkie
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    Tourism isn’t evil.

    Tourism-centric economies that ignore the needs of local population to serve tourists and make money (… Therefore Capitalism) is evil. Car/plane centric infrastructure that greatly increases CO2 production (… Therefore Capitalism²) is evil.

    Travel and tourism are, in and of themselves, positive and enriching, if you somehow divorce them from said capitalist forces.