Grim Warning?

I had to smile at an article in the MailOnline, some dreadful online rag, a screenshot of which is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

The "grim warning" came from a "travel expert" as quoted below:

Barcelona residents were seen shooting water pistols at tourists dining al fresco on on July 6, while there have been mass protests in the Spanish-run Canary Islands against huge numbers of arrivals. 

Now a travel expert has warned that Australians' favourite overseas getaway destination could see similar unrest.  

'There's a distinct possibility that locals could start to express their frustrations with tourists directly and start to indicate that they would prefer tourists to do different things, or go somewhere else,' said Australian Traveller Media managing director Quentin Long, Yahoo reported.  

Rubbish articles like this seem to be part of an orchestrated attempt to discourage intercountry tourism by publishing articles that portray tourists in a bad light or emphasise the negative effects of tourism on local communities. An Agenda 2030 goal is to massively reduce the number of people traveling by plane and ship which is equivalent to massively reducing the number of tourists visiting countries other than their own.

We can expect more of these kinds of social engineering stories from travel experts in the future, demonising intercountry tourists and intercountry tourism, and encouraging people to explore their own country, by rail of course. Increasingly expensive overseas airfares, the imposition of travel-related taxes, scare stories about airline safety and so forth will further discourage intercountry tourism. Be patriotic. Stay at home.

The dream of the technocrats is a Chinese-style social credit score for all individuals. You'll be allowed maybe one overseas trip a year and lose points if you do travel. If your social credit score is too low for whatever reason then you will not be allowed to board a plane or boat at all. Most countries are not at that point yet but it is coming. In the meantime, expect more negative stories about tourist and tourism from the gutter press who long ago sold out to their handlers.

I'm not saying that there are no negatives to tourists and tourism. Clearly there are. I hate cruise ships but I expect these behemoths of the high seas will be increasingly targeted for negative press in the coming years. Remember that all the news disseminated via mass media (MM) is curated and so narratives can be aggressively pushed or not pushed at all. MM is completely aligned with Agenda 2030 goals and will consistently push a narrative that discourages travel by plane or boat and promotes travel by train. Just remember this each time the promotional stories appear.