Tourists bring luxury with them as they spend their money and experience luxury as they do traveling. This is the assumption when tourism is seen as a good thing for a nation and for tourists, them as something who wish to be educated and given experiences, events, emotions, impressions, senses, thrills and so on. To travel is to broaden one’s mind and is seen a good thing for the individual for the economy of places where people want to go. Luxury of telling what one has seen and experienced, where one has been and what one has done is big part of joy and privilege of traveling. Being able and afford to enjoy time at distant location where there are lots to see or to get drunk and have so much fun, be somebody else than what one is normally in everyday life. To promote tourism as a good thing and a money-maker is cynical, consequences are also something else than just good and fabulous. The claim that traveling is a good thing itself broadening minds and educational activity is true to a certain point, up to a point. Climbing a mountain is heavy and metaphor for conquering something bigger than oneself, beating obstacles on one’s way to the top. Such status symbols as tourism bring we all should be able to afford and when we don’t we do not belong to group of privileged. It is good to travel and one is ignorant if one does not do it. A show off and mostly nothing else but mountain of garbage.
Have you ever been, have you seen and experienced kindness of local people there, oh, you should go. All the things we should be doing as contemporary civilized people. Been there, done that is trophy culture of people who do not have anything else to boast about. In this picture idea of museums bringing in tourists somehow fits but somehow really does not. Museum for who exactly, for tourists.. give me a break.
