Irresponsible tourism might be
more apt terminology. The current,
in-vogue ‘solutions’ to tourism are, I
suggest, actually further fueling the
rapid spread of tourism without offering
any real, lasting answers. Perhaps
all the energies that have been channelled
into refining this new ‘good
tourism’ might have been better spent
actually addressing the real problem
of mass tourism - the massive volume
and, globally, the growing absolute
number of tourists. It seems to me that
none of the recent suggestions are
actually coming to terms with, or indeed
confronting, this fact.