Today is the World tourism day? Okay. Look.

From now on, we need to work against the cheap/instant travel and tourism.

Travel is not a basic human need.

If we want to travel, we need to do it with a clear purpose, and some serious budget has to be invested in that.

Cheap tourism has created:

- inequalities - owners of spare homes getting (often undeclared) extra earnings from airbnb while many people can’t find homes to rent
- precarious seasonal jobs based on “expected results” - many workers who live in expensive areas but in scarcity...

Cheap tourism has created:

- unfair competition to serious tourism businesses and bad experiences for clients of these businesses - imagine if you pay for a good travel experience only to be surrounded by crowds and chaos.

Cheap tourism didn’t make travel and holidays accessible to low income individuals and families. It only made possible for middle and upper middle class in developed countries opportunities to travel more often.

Cheap tourism didn’t help students and young people gaining “global experiences”. Instead, it made them go abroad more easily only to drink cheap beer and visit pointless trendy festivals and similar events - without getting any knowledge of real insights about local communities.

In conclusion:

Cheap tourism didn’t create a more inclusive, sustainable, or knowledgeable world. Instead, it made the other way around. Let’s change it by creating a different kind of products in tourism industry.