“People who go on vacation to one place or another are not our enemies, nor are they the target of our actions,” he said. “Let me be clear: our enemies are those who speculate on housing, who exploit workers and those who are profiting handsomely from the touristification of our cities.”
It’s always about a class struggle, isn’t it.
Threading through all the actions is a rallying cry for a rethink of a tourism model that campaigners say has increasingly funnelled profits into the hands of a few, while leaving locals to pay the price through soaring house prices and rents, environmental degradation and the proliferation of precarious, low-paying jobs.
There, that’s the line. It’s not about “tourists bad” or some kind of hypocrisy. It’s about “we want a different tourist industry that doesn’t externalize it’s costs to society”.
Pshhhh, America is streets ahead of you guys, nobody wants to vacation here anymore!
“People who go on vacation to one place or another are not our enemies, nor are they the target of our actions,” he said. “Let me be clear: our enemies are those who speculate on housing, who exploit workers and those who are profiting handsomely from the touristification of our cities.”
Ok maybe you’re handling it a little better.
I would very much like to visit America. Just not the USA portion of it.
ecotourism also very ruinious as well, in some natural area, trampling paths, roads, ignoring wildlife, plants.
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A result of the “global village”. Deep in our hearts we know that it would be better for the climate, the cities and ourselves if we lived just a little bit more modestly. Travel less, there’s too many of us.
Traveling in Europe is very different from the rest of the world though. You can just get anywhere on train or boat. Or even bus.
When the rasism of the neofaschists now also applies to other europeans…
I wonder how many of these people regularly visit other countries as tourists.
Careful with that logic.
I got a comment deleted for highlighting that a protester who glued themselves to an airport runway probably gets flights for their holidays.
Tourists are just the evil foreigners of countries not attractive to immigration…
It’s always the same story. Fuck up the domestic market, especially in housing, to make a few rich people even richer, then shift the blame to someone else (as directed by those rich paying to get you manipulated).
