Essays
Dispatches, Stories, and Essays on a Touristed World

The Permanent Vacation
Chris Christou
Tourism is not just an industry. It is a worldview, a way of life that doesn't begin when we get off the plane, but at home.
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Towards a Tourism of Recognition
Honouring the Possibilities that Tourism Brings, While Apprenticing its Conquesting Consequences
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S2: Turismo de Reconocimiento
Honrando las posibilidades que trae el turismo, aprendiendo sus consecuencias conquistadoras
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Membership in the End of Tourism: An Invitation
You Are Cordially Invited to Dive Deeper into the Resistance
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Anthropologists and Tourists: A Sibling Rivalry
A forgotten kinship between two types of people can help us to understand who we are and our place as people of consequence in foreign worlds.
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Wear A Fucking Mask, Gringo
In these times, seeing travel as freedom is an escape that blinds from what is being asked of us.
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How We Got To The Beach / How We Became Tourists
Below the beach vacation lies the story of how we became tourists and how we can't remove that from how we became exiles.
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The Return of Tourism: Home
While international quarantine began to expose our wandering mythos, tourists doubled down on it.
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The Return of Tourism: Away
While national borders were closed for most of last year, wanderlust swelled. The quarantine and confinement gave people good reason to dream of anywhere but here.
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There is No Such Thing as Overtourism
There is no such thing as overtourism. There is just tourism and our ability (or lack thereof) to suffer it.
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