山水 (San Shui): Why tourism?

MASS tourism is only necessary to the extent that some busybodies in the northern countries wish to spend freely some of their capitalist-earned money and time in the southern countries. Mass tourism (think overpriced, bland hotels, blatantly overmarketed and non-authentic tourist food, and entirely unnatural “natural” settings like seaweed-free beaches, etc) only exists to give something back to the ignored people in the ignored countries, because the boring, uncultured busybodies in the north desire to do so. For example, I wouldn't want to take away the income of “Alex”, a server in Acapulco who brought Corona beers to my brother and I as we relaxed on a perfectly maintained beach. We tipped him well!

In a perfect world, sustainable economies would be distributed evenly across the globe to the point where anybody with enough means to be a tourist somewhere else would also find it highly useful to pick up some real language, culture, and customs of the destination before departure.

Will this ever happen? I don't know, man. Your guess is as good as mine.

MASS tourism is only necessary to the extent that some busybodies in the northern countries wish to spend freely some of their capitalist-earned money and time in the southern countries. Mass tourism (think overpriced, bland hotels, blatantly overmarketed and non-authentic tourist food, and entirely unnatural “natural” settings like seaweed-free beaches, etc) only exists to give something back to the ignored people in the ignored countries, because the boring, uncultured busybodies in the north desire to do so. For example, I wouldn't want to take away the income of “Alex”, a server in Acapulco who brought Corona beers to my brother and I as we relaxed on a perfectly maintained beach. We tipped him well!

In a perfect world, sustainable economies would be distributed evenly across the globe to the point where anybody with enough means to be a tourist somewhere else would also find it highly useful to pick up some real language, culture, and customs of the destination before departure.

Will this ever happen? I don't know, man. Your guess is as good as mine.