According to some, it would be the dream. Tourism is indeed the subject of many criticisms, not to say a visceral rejection on the part of environmentalists, sometimes of the natives and, more generally, of the protesters of modernity. Among environmentalists, we denounce the destruction of traditional lifestyles, overconsumption, over-exploitation of local resources (hunting, fishing, harvesting of rare species), the destruction of ecosystems, but also prostitution and the “consumption of traditional customs To which are added an exponential production of waste, an aberrant consumption of water and energy, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by air transport, buses and boats.
Among the natives, mass tourism elicits ambivalent reactions. Local trade finds its account there, it is certain, but in Venice, Barcelona or Dubrovnik, one sees nevertheless flourishing in the streets of the panels "Tourists go home!" , the country
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