The Inherent Consequences of Wanderlust & Hypermobility | Chris Christou
Description
Welcome back to season 5 (and the series finale) of The Altruistic Traveller podcast. My name is Bianca Caruana and for the past five years I have been bringing you stories from influential change makers who are shaping our world for the better.
In this episode, I speak with Chris Christou - a writer, educational curator, activist and founder of the End of Tourism Podcast.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, he moved to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2015 after a decade of “delirious wanderlust”. In 2016, Chris began concurrently working in and writing about the tourism industry. In 2021, he created and launched the End of Tourism Podcast where he holds deep dialogues that confront, unknot, and subvert the unauthorised histories of wanderlust and exile.
“For some, tourism can entail learning, freedom, and financial survival. For others, it means the loss of culture, land, and lineage.” In this episode, we talk about the “other” side of tourism - how our freedom of movement has inherent consequences on place, people and culture.
Chris shares his knowledge and insights from years as an academic in this arena, as well as learnings from guests he hosts on his podcast. We discuss gentrification, exile, capitalism, tourism and radical hospitality.
Get ready for thirty minutes of deep dialogue and thought-provoking discussion about what it means to be human in the age of hypermobility.
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