"Liam can ride his bike, Judy can swim in the sea, and the kids can go to the amusement park 30 minutes away. With one click of "Confirm," a year's savings evaporate. The airport is a bustling, heaving business, and the kids fight over the window seat. And it's downhill from there. The beaches are so busy that they cannot find a spot big enough for them all. The mountain bike trails are a muddy churn with hour-long queues at the top. The amusement park is more expensive than the flights. And, to top it all off, it's colder than home. "What a waste," they think."
""Tourism has now become almost like an uncontrollable affliction. And we can see the beginnings of a kind of revolt. People are marching in the streets of Barcelona against this invasion of their spaces. But other places - Cambridge, Oxford, Central London - are overwhelmed by everyone's ease of trav"
""How about the south of France?""
Liam and Judy save a few hundred dollars monthly for a big family summer holiday and compromise on the Tuscan coast. Booking consumes a year's savings with a single click. The trip proves disappointing: bustling airports, kids fighting over seats, overcrowded beaches with no space for the group, muddy mountain-bike trails with hour-long queues, an amusement park that costs more than the flights, and colder weather than home. The family feels the trip was a waste. A visitor contrasts an 18th-century bucolic Corsica with a crowded modern Corsica and describes tourism as an uncontrollable affliction, noting protests in Barcelona and overwhelmed cities like Cambridge, Oxford, and Central London.
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