There's No Such Thing As Eco-Tourism
Anneli Rufus, always an interesting writer, sets the cat among the AlterNet-reading pigeons with There's No Such Thing As Eco-Tourism:
"First Worlders penetrating the Third World aren't the wild rebels they imagine themselves to be, he snorts. They're deluded children, lulled by the convenience of their own electronic toys and their longing to make the folks back home envy them for where they've been. More and more trips these days, he writes, are 'apparently influenced more by the Guinness Book of Records than by a desire to travel per se. People aspire to be the first to swim the entire length of the Mekong backstroke or become the only dude ever to go snowboarding in Antarctica. Take a camera crew along to capture your waggish ego!'"
Tagged: environment, tourism
"First Worlders penetrating the Third World aren't the wild rebels they imagine themselves to be, he snorts. They're deluded children, lulled by the convenience of their own electronic toys and their longing to make the folks back home envy them for where they've been. More and more trips these days, he writes, are 'apparently influenced more by the Guinness Book of Records than by a desire to travel per se. People aspire to be the first to swim the entire length of the Mekong backstroke or become the only dude ever to go snowboarding in Antarctica. Take a camera crew along to capture your waggish ego!'"
Tagged: environment, tourism
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