Tourist troubles: I’m a local, get me out of here

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The less salubrious downsides of tourism success are well-known: touch-and-go visitors who don’t respect local cultures, including sacred sites, traffic congestion and environmental damage. Many affected destinations are seen as “Disneyfied” – somehow in the process of being more tourist-friendly, traditional ways of life have been lost, resulting in a commodified and reductive sense of the local culture, usually predictably mass-produced to cater to as many visitors as possible.

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