The Hand that Feeds You
Is disliking tourists in the Queenstown area biting the hand that feeds you? Who is essential to make a place in which one wants to live?
Tag: tourism
Tourism & Colonialism
What do tourism and colonialism have in common? Plenty, I reckon. Time for New Zealand to have a think about this as we consider one is essential to our economy and the other is abhorrent.
Worthy Tourists
Why do people want to replicate the travel experiences of others? What is the value of curated tourism, to tourists or locals?
The other side of tourism
Tourism creates global understanding and we need more understanding at a time when Russia is invading the Ukraine and China wants to take Taiwan back.
Tourism saves the economy, or not – a rant
Tourism – a nightmare before COVID, what will return once the COVID nightmare ends?
The weight of absence
The impact of absence can be an enormous void or a welcome relief depending on your expectations and desires.
The price is wrong
Which freedoms will we get when we move to Level 2? Hopes of domestic tourism are rising. People want to travel and businesses want custom. Will they have to reduce prices which supposedly got too expensive when it was an international market?
Touring a disaster zone
I took a tour around closed-for-COVID Queenstown, normally a humming hub of tourism. Here is what I saw…