season 1
This season features 21 articles across five core lenses.Rather than spotlighting places, you’ll discover an exploration of the forces that turn travel into desire, spectacle, or controversy reshaping how we understand tourism and the world.
desire and escape
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Is Istanbul the Secret to Your Health & Wellness Goals?
The Operating Room of the New Global Body.
Detox retreats: fasting, silence, and vacuum marketing
When silence and austerity are reinvented as contemporary luxury.
Rebirth Through Travel: Tourism After Burnout, Breakups, or Illness
Stories of resilience found beyond the horizon.
Bodies in Transit: The Global Business of Self-Care
The price of looking and feeling good.
Tattoos as a Journey: Rituals, Aesthetics, and Memory on the Skin
Inked memories from every corner of the world.
economic
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The Price of Speed: Inside F1’s Billion-Dollar Weekend
Tourism, tension, and turbocharged inequality.
Cities that sell themselves: the brand as a destination
Where imagination meets reality: cities as brands.
Tourism as Economic Salvation: Strategy or Trap?
How governments turned travelers into economic lifelines.
Tourism Monoculture: When Everything Depends on the Visitor
How everyday life is reshaped by those who only pass through.
political and environmental
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Greenwashing in Paradise: Genuine Sustainability or Just a Green Mask?
Tourism’s fragile balance between image and impact.
Nature for sale: when parks becomes spectacles
From horizons to hashtags.
Residual Tourism: Who Cleans Up After the Visitor’s Party?
Behind the memories, a trail of residues.
Covert Diplomatic Travels: Tourism as a Pretext for Power
The Hidden Life of Global Spectacles
social
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Faith in Motion: The Modern Quest for the Divine
Tracing the sacred in the shadows of the world.
Crossing Lines: The Simulated Borders of Tourism
Walking in the Shadows of Others’ Lives.
Chernobyl: When Disaster Becomes Experience
A landscape frozen in tragedy, thawed by curiosity.
Auschwitz and the Dilemma of Memory
The tension between education, remembrance, and spectacle.
The Pablo Escobar Route: Narco-Tourism and the Aesthetics of Crime
The Ethics of Looking Back.
