Is Travel Overrated?
Everywhere Tourists
Revenge travel is an unsettling phrase. Just who is being avenged? Presumably we’re striking back against our constrained life of the pandemic. But the real victims, it seems, are overrun European cities and seaside towns. Crowds are high, prices are high, anxiety is high. Nobody seems very happy.
There was an article this weekend in the Financial Times about cities reconsidering tourist economies. Should there be higher taxes on visitors the were there are in Bhutan? Old cities just aren’t designed for this many people, who, in many cases, treat locals like the extras in their social media triumphs. In the case of Amsterdam, it’s even more intense because people take what they call a moral holiday which means they basically go there to act like idiots.