Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“I admittedly waffle on how I feel about tourism. From advocating we ‘just embrace it’ to pointing out the obvious problems it causes. Regardless how I feel, tourism is sold to actual residents of the city as a blessing, even if its material effects often feel more like a curse. But I’ve never thought of tourism as a band-aid on a bullet wound, as Marko Jukic describes it in an article for Palladium. Focusing on Southern Europe and the growing tourism industry there (which I’ve mentioned before), Jukic describes how tourist-forward countries ‘temporarily ameliorate the financial stress caused by deeper economic and cultural problems that remain unsolved.’ He argues that tourism has become a convenient revenue source for countries with rapidly aging populations, collapsing birth rates, insolvent pension systems, uncompetitive industries, inflexible governance, and the emigration of young and educated natives out of the country.” (07/23/25)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/band-aid-on-a-bullet-wound/