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Beyond the Postcard: How 'Dark Tourism' is Being Co-Opted by Luxury

--- "Selling access to someone else's grief is still extraction, no matter how tasteful the brochure design or how high the thread count at the hotel down the road." The luxury travel industry has discovered that suffering, tragedy, and death make compelling products, and is...

Aug 19, 2026·8 min read
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Festival Fakes: How Luxury Turns Traditions into Ticketed Spectacles

--- "When a festival gets expensive enough to keep locals out, it's no longer a local festival; it's a theme park with better costumes." The luxury travel industry has systematically converted living communal traditions into staged, priced, and photographed spectacles that...

Aug 19, 2026·10 min read

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Michael Kovnick

Michael works inside the travel industry and writes critically about its language, incentives, and assumptions.

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