Some reflections on package holidays and the ethical tourism lobby
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mass tourism and ethical etiquette One of my first tasks at the university was to accompany sixty students to the Mediterranean island of Malta on fieldwork. A colleague, taking the role of tour guide on the bus, microphone in hand, proclaimed to the students as we passed the crowded resort of Bugibba that ’this is a rather ugly example of unsustainable tourism’ . On a grey February afternoon, even in Malta, it is hard to make a tourism resort look pretty. Certainly Bugibba has had its problems, stalled hotel projects being the most visible.
Some reflections on package holidays and the ethical tourism lobby
Some reflections on package holidays and the…
Some reflections on package holidays and the ethical tourism lobby
mass tourism and ethical etiquette One of my first tasks at the university was to accompany sixty students to the Mediterranean island of Malta on fieldwork. A colleague, taking the role of tour guide on the bus, microphone in hand, proclaimed to the students as we passed the crowded resort of Bugibba that ’this is a rather ugly example of unsustainable tourism’ . On a grey February afternoon, even in Malta, it is hard to make a tourism resort look pretty. Certainly Bugibba has had its problems, stalled hotel projects being the most visible.