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One question I wonder that I don't quite know how to answer- perhaps the important part is how does tourism compare to the other hobbies people might engage in
by ip26 8y ago
One question I wonder that I don't quite know how to answer- perhaps the important part is how does tourism compare to the other hobbies people might engage in to fill their time. It's probably worse than intramural sports, but how does it compare to automobile racing or what have you. Or, how does modern tourism compare to tourism of ages past- is ten thousand people taking a photograph better or worse than a couple British guys shooting a lion?
You could also speculate about much harder to prove thesis. For example, if travel & "global citizenship" helps avoid a great war, that's quite a lot of damage & destruction averted.
- malvosenior 8y agoFrom a carbon footprint standpoint, international travel is about as "bad" as you can get. From a social media narcissism eating the world standpoint, it's also pretty bad to be spending thousands of dollars to travel somewhere just to shoot an instagram shot and hope for likes (imho).
- ip26 8y agoCruise ships are worse than planes, although maybe that would also be considered international travel. There's a lot more focus on getting drunk on a boat though.