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Mass tourism swamps Asia's once remote places - CNN.com

Apr 2, '08 6:05 AM
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Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/04/01/asia.tourism.ap/index.html

This makes me sad.

Tags: travel, tourism, cultural impact

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outsidebound wrote on Apr 2

I am always torn, coming from some beautiful unspoiled part of the world, between telling everybody about it and keeping it to myself. It's like Sagada, and the coming of the Road. That's another place that has lost its soul.

psycherub wrote on Apr 3

gosh, i wanted to go this year to those places pa naman :( i wanted to see it before it got commercialized... guess now i'm too late.

winstonbaltasar wrote on Apr 3

Sagada has lost it's soul? Oh, no!

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didipusrex wrote on Apr 3

when was the Road completed?

outsidebound wrote on Apr 3

didipusrex said

when was the Road completed?

Some time in 2004, I think. Sagada has become a tourist conveyor belt. Everybody is so businesslike now. There are a lot of new faces. The locals I know have either left or have probably gone into hiding.

outsidebound wrote on Apr 3

winstonbaltasar said

Sagada has lost it's soul? Oh, no!

If busloads of camera-toting tourists got dumped in your backyard almost every day, you would lose your soul (and sanity), too.

ubb622 wrote on Apr 4

I feel, that we as tourist should assimilate when we travel, not bother.
But how do you teach that, when at home many do not teach it.
I don't know...i've always put myself in visitor mode and act accordingly when i go to a new place.
But some folks don't even know how to act like good visitors or guests.

It is sad indeed. And it is hard to find a balance with preserving and the temptation of tourism money.

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