Tourism: Death of an industry

Posted in January 15th, 2014 Image: Glen Murray If we want tourism to survive, tourism as an industry has to die. Actually, if you think about it, the very idea that tourism is an industry is preposterous and self-defeating. But it’s the central premise of what we’ve been doing since the ‘50s and, as Anna Pollock points out, it “contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction.