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
We have spent the last 3 days in Prague. We stayed at a lovely AirBnB overlooking the Vltava River and the Charles […]
The other side of tourism
Having ranted about tourism last week I am recanting, but only a little. I like it when my friends come as tourists, […]
Tourism saves the economy, or not – a rant
We have just finished a mini cycle tour from Gibbston to Milford Sound via Queenstown and Mavora Lakes. We stayed two nights […]
The price is wrong
Our bubble, like the rest of New Zealand, is champing at the bit (and chomping at each other) in the face of […]
Touring a disaster zone
Today I set out to discover the current state of Queenstown. What I discovered is that it is very hard to mentally […]