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The effects of this increased mobility are multiple. On one hand, they increase environmental pollution including CO2 emissions, and trample over valuable relics of culture and nature. On the other hand, they leave significant profits with states, employ millions who work in the tourism and related industries, and broaden mental horizons for travelers taking the opportunity to get to know other communities and their customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trampling the world?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tourism\u2019s slice of the global GDP exceeds 10%; in 2019, the record-breaking year to date, that amounted to $9.2 trillion. About 20% of the employed find work there. Rich countries and emerging economies alike depend on this sector to a substantial extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2018, France (nearly 90 million visits), Spain (83 million), and the US (80 million) competed to be world leader in the tourism economy. In the most-visited country rankings, other high placings are quite understandably occupied by Italy, T\u00fcrkiye, Thailand, and Greece, while Poland\u2019s 19th place with nearly 20 million visitors is a little surprising (those ranking lower include India and Croatia). Tourists leave the most cash in the US (over $200 billion a year), in Spain ($60 billion), and Thailand ($50 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which tourist hotspots are most visited?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
According to TripAdvisor\u2019s ranking, based on tickets sold and online reviews, Italy leads the way. The top two sites are in Rome: the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums; the top ten closes with Venice\u2019s Grand Canal. In third place stands the Statue of Liberty in New York City, while fourth and fifth belong to Paris, with the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower respectively, and sixth place belongs to the under-construction Barcelona church, the Sagrada Fam\u00edlia. The ranking of most-popular cities looks rather different. According to Mastercard\u2019s data for 2022, Bangkok can boast about the most visits (about 23 million), followed by Paris (19 million), London (19 million), Dubai (16 million), and Singapore (15 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\nMidjourney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s all this tourism for?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What goals do these travels serve? Along with their primary purpose, which can differ between business, holiday, family, etc., the Polish saying \u201ctravels educate\u201d seems accurate. Once we get to know new places, we usually learn lots: about the place we\u2019re in, about people living there and their customs, about local cuisine and culture. We get the chance to make new friends, to talk to people we\u2019d never meet in our environment. By the way, we also discover a lot anew: first about ourselves, in terms of our behavior in unusual situations, responses to unexpected events, consequences of decisions being taken. We then rediscover \u201cour\u201d places, upon returning from the expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After their escapades, for example, to far Asia or Africa, most Poles \u2013 at least for some time \u2013 eat native delicacies. We\u2019re enraptured again by verdant landscapes along the Vistula and Bug Rivers, and the smells of field herbs. And a quite obvious reflection arises: \u201cHow is it that we haven\u2019t seen all of this until now?\u201d We look at the world differently, sometimes also noticing changes in our behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Getting to know culturally foreign places should serve in broadening one\u2019s mental horizons, discovering perspectives we\u2019d not known and helping rid oneself of prejudices towards others. But is it always so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The development of mass tourism to distant, exotic places results in tourists appearing there completely unprepared. Normal means don\u2019t help: brochures, guidebooks, explanations by pilots and travel agents. Those on holiday demand, for example, pork chops and potatoes for lunch in Arab countries, they loudly accost locals, and break all possible local taboos and prohibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sensitizing the insensitive?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Agoda agency, owned by a company dealing with online hotel reservations, asked its customers and guides about the most irritating behaviors they observed during a trip. Of the respondents, 46% said they\u2019re most annoyed by tourists who were entirely insensitive to cultural differences. Admittedly, some of their blunders may be unintentional, resulting from ignorance, but too many simply expect customs around the world to adapt to where they\u2019ve come from. These people are taken aback when it turns out otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other annoying behavior included \u201csticking to the phone,\u201d that is, staring at smartphone screens for hours during the trip, not paying attention to views out the window; alternatively, they\u2019re on the watch only for spots for taking a selfie. Also badly evaluated were noisiness and imposing one’s language \u2013 tourists force-talking their way among locals can be a real nightmare. One bright example is teaching the natives to swear, for example, in Polish. Plenty of readers have probably found themselves in situations when, maybe in the African desert or an Asian jungle, a local souvenir vendor had no idea where Poland is but said the profanity starting with a k<\/em> perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So what helps tourists to better situate themselves in local realities, treat people they meet there with respect, and get home from trips all the wiser for valuable experiences? Education seems crucial, at every possible level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many such initiatives are already taking hold \u2013 for example, in Paris, the magistrate\u2019s office issued a special publication for hotel employees, travel agents, and taxi drivers, \u201cDo You Speak Touriste?\u201d aimed at sensitizing them to cultural differences in their contacts with visitors. It includes characteristics of tourists from 11 countries with descriptions of their typical interests, stereotypes to anticipate, ways of improving contact, and so forth. The publication\u2019s aim was to gently introduce visitors into French reality, such as the advice to not \u201cembarrass\u201d Parisians with intrusive English (the French, not famed for fluency in this language, use it reluctantly), understanding set times when meals are served (e.g., late dinner), and more lax compliance with traffic rules than in Anglo-Saxon countries. On the other hand, the publication\u2019s authors paid attention to foreigners\u2019s needs, to help enable them in adapting more easily to life on the Seine \u2013 for example, Germans want to drink beer in a restaurant overlooking Notre-Dame, Chinese will want to visit\u2026the shopping center, while for Brazilians good wi-fi access is key, and the Dutch are renowned for hunting for sightseeing bargains and for shopping as well\u2026 with discounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between tradition and fiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There were, of course, skeptics claiming the recommendations are nothing more than repeating harmful stereotypes and that each person should be treated in as individualized a way as possible. However, the initiatives are at the very least attempts to find a compromise on the issue of provider-recipient of tourist services. It happens often enough that the former, on the hunt for profits, end up inventing scams, for example, by touting pseudo-attractions that tourist too willingly visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What meets us there? The Uros Indians living like their ancestors on mobile islands in Lake Titicaca in Peru, it turns out, live in traditional houses on land, in the city of Puno. For the needs of tourists, though, each morning they dress in folk costumes then go by motorboat to those huts on the water, selling there (at no small profit) pseudo-local souvenirs. Women from the Mursi tribe in southern Ethiopia decorate their lower lips with clay discs\u2026just for a few hours a day so exotica-thirsty Europeans and Americans can take pictures. They then get back to ordinary lives, watching TV and using mobile phones. Reindeer herders in Lapland, in their turn, tend their herds from helicopters rather than dogsledding. Out on Mongolia\u2019s steppes, satellite aerials protrude from traditional yurts. Examples of stagings performed for tourists for their money multiply readily. With an equivalent in Poland: torchlit highlander sleigh rides in Podhale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the above examples are mostly obvious abuses by the tourism industry (who\u2019d probably answer: given demand, we\u2019re just providing supply), on the customers\u2019 part, bizarre behavior certainly makes their presence felt. In the social-media age, with the young wanting to present themselves well, they invent fake-travel stories showing their photos on an exotic Bali beach \u2013 cut from another photo and Photoshopped. For authenticity in what\u2019s Instagram-postable, they show \u201ccopies\u201d of airline tickets, even beaming travel buddies, borrowed naturally from gazillions of photos out there on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conscious traveling: a tourist\u2019s decalogue<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s the way out of this tourist trap in which service providers and consumers both enjoy less of travel\u2019s benefits than they could? As noted above, education needs implementation across the board. In Western societies, having managed to build ecological awareness and surpass divisions, it\u2019s clearly possible to teach conscious, responsible traveling. Based on a decalogue of rules that are simple to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One: prepare for the trip, which is to say get to know the place you\u2019re heading and learn as much as possible about it. Two: take your time, and blend in to any extent that you can with the locals. Three: respect people you meet, don\u2019t treat them as potential crooks \u2013 just because you\u2019re from a richer part of the world doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re entitled. Four: respect local culture whatever your views may be about it \u2013 after all, it\u2019s not just your beliefs that are right beliefs. Five: learn even a few words in the local language, this invariably facilitates communication greatly. Six: take care of places you\u2019re in, don\u2019t leave any rubbish. Seven: don\u2019t fall for questionable attractions or anywhere you suspect of being operated to exploit people or animals. Eight: get to smaller attractions, don\u2019t just focus on the biggest ones \u2013 this way, you\u2019ll get to know unique places. Nine: support local producers, for both food and souvenirs. Ten: keep photography sensible, don\u2019t disturb religious ceremonies, and don\u2019t butt in on human weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along with these points, many will probably want to add something else, for example, about reasonable bargaining (forcing prices to the minimum can cost the poor their living wages), not feeding wild animals, traveling by public transport, avoiding peak season, and more. It\u2019s not always possible to meet all conditions, and the more organized and planned the trip (traveling in a group), the less influence you have on decisions. While you won\u2019t be changing the bus\u2019s route, though, your influence shows in how you relate to local people. It\u2019s easier to travel consciously and responsibly on your own, sure, but even when you\u2019re in a big group, there\u2019s much you can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Traveling isn\u2019t for everyone. Plenty among us won\u2019t be able to drop prejudices, and they\u2019ll remain closed in their views. Too bad. As Tiziano Terzani, the famous Italian reporter and globetrotter, wrote: \u201cTraveling makes no sense. Because if someone has nothing inside, they won\u2019t find it outside either. It is pointless to look for something in the world that cannot be found in oneself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2022, 960 million foreign trips happened worldwide, about two-thirds of the pre-pandemic level. Add domestic trips in and estimates are that just under half the planet\u2019s 8 billion inhabitants travel as tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[641,640],"class_list":["post-11102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-globalisation","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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