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Anti-tourism

The World Travel and Tourism Council predicts a record-breaking year for tourism in 2024 – but this isn't good news for everyone. Local people in tourism hotspots including Bali, Barcelona and Venice have made the front pages for protesting against tourists and their bad behaviour. What should happen next? 

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Published 19 July 2024

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This resource was created as part of an online teacher-training course: Teaching the news. The course has been created by The Economist Educational Foundation with support from Infosys. The Economist Educational Foundation maintained full editorial control.

About this lesson

Use this one-hour Headline lesson to help your students:

  • Understand why locals in some countries are protesting against tourism
  • Explore some of the solutions to the problem of "bad tourists"
  • Discuss the issue from different perspectives to form compromises

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Creativity

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Intermediate:
Imagining and generating ideas

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