Doug Lansky did this TEDx talk two years ago and it is more understandable than ever. Through his presentation he explains how humanity transformed tourism business in the last fifty years, leaving the hint for what's coming next based on statistic studies.
It is impressive to learn the numbers of such a recent phenomenon. Doug's argument is pretty reasonable as he has been studying tourism for the past ten years approaching the phenomenon in an anthropological method.
I have done some research and chose some of his best statements before TEDx link:
"International tourism is growing much faster than the population. Between 1950 and 2013, tourism grew over 4000% while the population grew 190%";
"Even if an airport can receive a million people a day, that does not mean that the city has the capacity to receive so many people. In Barcelona, for example, they limited the number of hotels they could build and the number of Airbnb in the center of the city"
"My research tells me that 75% of us when we book a hotel room want it to have a pool and gym - but I also know that only 25% of people actually use these perks. We want this, or we think we want it, but we end up doing totally different things when we get to the sites. We act in a contradictory way as tourists, because we do so in many other areas of life, this is no different";
"The reason people travel is because they want to have an experience they can not have close to home. They want something different. So what do we do? We give them the same things they have at home, the comfort of the brands they know, the American grills, the dearest sushis, and all these things" Doug Lansky
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