How The Travel Industry affects our lives - VPRO documentary
155The travel industry has been growing excessively so that some places have reached the limit of capacity. How is the travel industry reacting on that? Is the travel industry trying to prevent a collapse? Nowadays everybody travels. Flying has become affordable and people take the opportunity to see the world. Unfortunately, that has lead to a new phenomenon called over tourism.
Since the rise of mass tourism, people travel the world on a large scale and for little money. There seems to be no end to that growth because only more people want to go on holiday and that can be cheaper. But now that the coral reefs are disappearing, local residents have to move and even tourists are being attacked physically, a limit seems to have been reached. How to turn this tide?
Globally, tourism is the largest growth sector, one in ten jobs is tourism related. In addition to the great economic benefits, however, there are also concerns about the manageability of tourist flows. Cities are threatening to become unlivable and residents are stirring. Moreover, the permanent movement of people contributes almost five percent to global warming.
But going on vacation has become an all-male right. Everyone needs at least a week off with the hectic lives that we lead. And more and more the tourist expects the destination to be adapted to his needs, while the local population and the planet pay the bill. Now even the inventor of the travel guide Lonely Planet asks himself what he has done. Are the glory days of tourism over? Can you still go on holiday every year with good decency? VPRO Backlight on the phenomenon of over tourism and the future of travel.
Original title: Reizen is het nieuwe roken
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2018.
© VPRO Backlight May 2018
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Credits:
Director: Sabine Lubbe Bakker
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.