Samoa’s tourism is at a fork in the road

The tourism sector (Samoa’s primary source of foreign exchange that contributes around 30% of GDP) could be prospering and thriving and, in just a few years, could become a destination envied by many in the developing and developed world. The fact that tourism IS...
12000 words* on tourism’s capacity to destroy!

12000 words* on tourism’s capacity to destroy!

One of the themes of my writing on Conscious Travel is that mass industrial tourism contains the seeds of its own destruction. When travel becomes a right in the consumer’s mind and suppliers compete on the price of their products not the uniqueness of their...