Same crisis, same/different solution to revive tourism?

#11 · 19. March 2021, 8:28

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 15. March 2021, 14:53

My thesis: It doesn't fit with the idea of holidays abroad: freedom, paradise...
To get from one lockdown to another quarantine doesn't sound like fun, sounds like a contradictive, unreflected idea...

I also agree with that. By traveling you want to escape from life at home. But when I think of being quarantined on my vacation.. that's not the way I want to spend my time there. Especially in a place like Thailand and when I think of young tourists: they want to travel around, experience different areas and so on - and they want to do this in self-organization and independently.

If you hop from one bubble into another one, vacation would not fulfill its origin purpose anymore - that's not as you mentioned "freedom and paradise". Maybe a lot of people would accept that, but anyway I can't imagine that they will be happy with that and enjoy their stay.

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#12 · 19. March 2021, 14:43

Thank you very much, Doris, for your contribution.
As we were able to discuss somewhere before, unfortunately the background of this idea of travel bubbles is to serve high-end, well paying tourists: people who want to be protected from social reality by prefering luxurious services and products... probably, but as you are showing your example:
this is much more like travelling in a classical sense: to be open-minded, interacting whith all kinds of realities...
Not really the target group for luxury tourism 😉
To be honest: I am absolutely with Doris, concerning my personal preferences...

Ceterum censeo mutationem climae esse vincendem.

(Incidentally, I think that global warming must be defeated)

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