Leitmotifs

The End of Tourism Podcast is organized into a series of themes. You can easily find episodes on those themes by clicking on the links below.

Escape & Exile: On migrations, forced as well as chosen, the cultures and calamities and their causes and consequences.

Greenwashing: On the COVID-19 pandemic fallout, colonial conservationism, the environment, ecotourism and climate change.

Identity Crisis: On identity politics and how to make sense of who we are in the shifting sands between borders, demographics, cultures and lineage.

The Medium is the Message: On social media, the spectacle, surveillance, travel writing, and technology.

Radical Hospitality: Stories old and new about what it means to be a neighbour, stranger, host, guest, and a cultural being in our time.

The Resistance: On the groups and movements pushing back against the consequences of tourism in their neighbourhoods.

Season Zero: A series of short dispatches introducing the main themes of the pod.

Wanderlust & Pilgrimage: On the urge to travel, the long road, those who travel it without any skill and those trying to recuperate one.


El Fin De Turismo: Conversaciones en espanol, enfocado on los temas del podcast como se afectan los pueblos, ciudades, gente y los mas-que-humano de Mexico.

Conversations in Spanish, largely focused on the themes of the pod as they affect those in Mexico.


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