Cash, time, or freedom: Travel & tourism is expensive
If one can put romantic notions of ‘the good old days’ aside, then one must acknowledge that travel was then, and is now, an elitist pursuit for those with the luxuries of cash, time, and/or freedom. Tourism is expensive.
Our industry has to change, according to Duncan M Simpson. But how?
Mr Simpson shares this “Good Tourism” Insight at the invitation of Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions, a “GT” Partner. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.)
Contents
- A little freedom
- Difficult, expensive, and slow
- Slow, raw, and untidy
- Different now? Not really.
- Something needs to change
- What do you think?
- About the author
- Featured image (top of post)
- Now = then?
A little freedom
I worked at the youth hostel in Cambridge, in 1976. A job for the summer, I said, while I enjoyed a little freedom, before going back to my chosen career.
At Cambridge most visitors arrived on foot, having used a train to get there. Bicycles were popular, sometimes combined with trains. Very few used private cars. The Interrail ticket, offering unlimited travel and the freedom of Europe by train, had begun in 1972.
Most visitors came from Europe, crossing the North Sea by ferry from Scandinavia, Germany, and the Low Countries, as the ‘Benelux’ states of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands were then called.
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