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Tourism: Conflicts of a trillion-dollar business

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Anja Kimmig
July 30, 2024

Billions of people went on vacation in 2023, as global tourism was almost hitting pre-pandemic levels. While $1.5 trillion are being poured into the industry every year, popular destinations are close to collapsing.

Billions of people went on vacation in 2023 as global tourism was almost hitting pre-pandemic levels. Money has poured into the tourism industry, but it’s come at a cost in many other ways. Popular destinations like Mallorca and the Mexican city of Cancún are almost collapsing under the masses of people. This not only pushes locals out, it brings heaps of garbage, polluted water and soaring rents. 

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