The U.S. State Department on April 14 issued its sternest travel alert yet for people traveling into Mexico. The alert replaces the one dated October 2007. The greater part of the alert affects travelers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Most attacks, the alert says, are aimed at members of drug trafficking organizations, Mexican police forces, criminal […]
(Cold) War on Tourism
London, December 7, 2007. Osama Bin Laden has won. He has succeeded in turning the governments of the world against tourism and re-ignited the Cold War. This is a tragedy, because tourism is sacred. It is the modern equivalent of the pilgrimage. It is the moment when we “suspend the pursuit of profit” to take pleasure in nature, […]