The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.
The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.
One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
While we advertise tourism, we should also educate our people in keeping a close vigil on what is happening as the side effect of tourism.
She was concerned with the prostitution and pedophilia that developed with large numbers of tourists.
Airbnb is dedicated to empowering people and communities through healthy tourism, and we have a long tradition of supporting local projects in Asia-Pacific.