It had been three years since I’d visited Cartagena, and I was shocked by all the changes. They must have been bubbling …
Tag: tourism
File Under No Comment: ‘Send Me To Africa’
With a click of the button… (a contest sponsored by sponsors). It’s an empty landscape. With pyramids.…
Pinkwashing South Africa
This week BBC News reported on the rise in Cape Town’s status as a premiere international gay tourist destination. The a…
Apparently revolutions are not good for tourism
That used to be mainstream opinion in white South Africa and is what Tina Brown and her editors think about. What drove …
T.I.A. @ The Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell, a symbol of the American Revolution, is housed in a complex on Market Street in Philadelphia, remindin…
"Rhythm like you've never seen before"
I stand corrected, but no one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feelgood cocktail quite like the South African a…
WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM 2010?
Just as the football at the 2010 World Cup will be great, someone will make lots of money. It is not going to be local b…
FILM: A PANTHER IN AFRICA
The full film, about a Black Panther who fled Kansas City in the American Midwest in 1970 for a new life in Tanzania (by…
Slum tourism
In Kibera, the large informal settlement in Nairobi, the residents are paraded like animals on safari for foreign touris…