Tourism itself is quite destructive both to local communities and to nature. There’s a reason tourist hotspots are increasingly anti-tourist, and national parks

Tourism itself is quite destructive both to local communities and to nature. There’s a reason tourist hotspots are increasingly anti-tourist, and national parks are now forced to ration out visits via a lottery. While I agree that a virtual environment is less impressive than the real thing, it’s not a difficult argument to make that it is actually much better for the world to have digital alternatives.