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Ethical tourism
Haha, fair enough. I am not opposed to a good holiday either.
But if you are someone who is concerned about poverty and global inequality, and you are also into adventure travel, at some point those two interests (for want of a better word) are going to bump into each other.
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Originally Posted by Threewheelbonnie
No missionary work, the locals can work stuff out for themselves and its rude to assume we know better .
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Complete aside, but that brought back memories of meeting some ageing American missionaries in a bush hotel in Zambia. It was breakfast time and the chap (at the breakfast table next to me) was moaning about some minor inattention in the service he expected to receive. I gently pointed out that it was highly likely that none the people serving him had ever stayed in a hotel like this, so probably didn’t intuitively get the first world service expectations he had from 5* America. It appeared a completely new revelation to him. It didn’t bode well for the cultural sensitivity of the rest of his mission (whatever that was)!
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