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Hello. What could be nicer, what could be simpler than to forget all our cares and worries and sing along with Cliff Richards.

We're all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a week or two fun and laughter on a summer holiday no more

worries for me or you for a week or two. Well, even in better time, as such clap happy jolliness about holiday travel seemed a trifle misplaced,

but in recent days the idea that we could forget all our worries, forget

all our cares as we desperately wait to see if our intended destination is about to be placed

on the red list or queue up for our

expensive PCR tests or learn that we must quarantine for two weeks on our

return. All that makes Cliff Richards exuberance positively Panglosian.

But if COVID has further undermined the image of tourism as an unalloyed pleasure,

it has also drawn attention to the manager in which tourism has become a defining feature

of 21st century life, a phenomenon which not only reshapes entire cities and countries, but can now in many respects claim an unenviable

title, the world's most polluting industry.

So how did tourism turn topsy grow so massive? What were its literary and

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