Lately I've been catching up on the trends in tourism. I read a lot of nonsense and sometimes there are doubtful cases. Authentic experiences, for example. What are they? If you send a 100 pax bus there, is the experience still authentic? Or eat at people's homes in a holiday country? Seems like hell on earth to me. Turn it around: put a tourist couple at Rita and Jaap's in … [Read more...] about Column: The suitcase crisis
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Column: Turkey tastes like more
About a hundred years ago, I was the first Dutch tourist in Bodrum, Turkey. At least, I like to tell myself that I have discovered this now popular place for fellow travelers. By the way, I don't rule out the possibility that it's been more recently. At that time, there were no mass hotels, but small-scale new construction. We booked a hotel in the coastal town of Gümbet for … [Read more...] about Column: Turkey tastes like more