> the life of people making money from tourists is similar everywhere I think, what I am getting at, is that this sentiment equally applies to every industry.

> the life of people making money from tourists is similar everywhere I think, what I am getting at, is that this sentiment equally applies to every industry. You will find similarities if you compare any two tourist areas. You'll also find similarities between cities with healthy financial services sectors, or towns with small fishing industries, or towns where light (or heavy) industry is the main source of employment. Tourism is just a way of making money, just like any other. It's normal and expected to get bored of tourist areas (because they are often the areas you go to most) - but the fact that you (or I) are bored of them does not make them worse than any other area. If this article's pitch was "I got bored of tourist areas so here's how to travel in other places" I would be into it. Instead it is suggesting that tourist areas are somehow lesser than where people are living "real" lives, which is pretty off-putting and, as I said above, strongly clashes with my own travel experience.