I have been traveling a lot and since the 1980s tourism, as in adventure, and exploration has been slowly but surely moved into the direction of being a theme p

I have been traveling a lot and since the 1980s tourism, as in adventure, and exploration has been slowly but surely moved into the direction of being a theme park. Airbnbs further shoved locals out of their own towns so you get to places just to see few different buildings and monuments but at the end of the day there's no real touch with locals and their culture. Bar Madagascar and India I really cannot say I have seen many places where I didn't feel I was still where I left. Even Japan is strikingly different. Tokyo has changed tremendously (and shifted extremely to the west culturally) to the point Japanese culture in many areas seems a leftover for tourists. Kyoto suffered this brutal westernization a bit less, but feels like it's just slower. Anyway the homogenization of music, culture, language, habits, technologies, food and what not is definitely a con when it comes to traveling and wanting to explore a different culture and life.