The End of Tourism

By Chris Christou

What's The End of Tourism about?

Welcome to the End of Tourism, a podcast about wanderlust, exile, and radical hospitality. For some, tourism can entail learning, freedom, and financial survival. For others, it means the loss of culture, land, and lineage. Our conversations explore the unauthorized histories and consequences of modern travel. They are dispatches from the resistance. Hosted by Chris Christou.

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The End of Tourism episodes:

06.07.2024
S5 #6 | Relearning Home & Hospitality w/ Manish Jain (Ecoversities)
On this episode, my guest is Manish Jain, a man deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations and inter-cultural dialogue. Inspired by MK Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Ivan Illich, his illiterate village grandmother, his unschooled daughter, indigenous...
05.23.2024
#0.6 | Spectacle, The Senses and Surveillance w/ Chris Christou
Show Notes John Urry’s The Tourist Gaze Photography The Senses Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Spectacle Homework Transcript Welcome friends to Season Zero of the End of Tourism podcast. In these mini-episodes, you'll hear short transmissions speaking to the principles...
04.26.2024
S5 #5 | Fortress Conservation in the Congo w/ Martin Lena & Linda Poppe (Survival International)
On this episode, my guests are Martin Lena and Linda Poppe of Survival International. They join me to discuss “fortress conservation” in the Congo, the issues facing Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and the recent victories of Survival International there. Linda...
03.28.2024
S5 #4 | Hillwalking & Homecoming in the Highlands w/ Christos Galanis
On this episode, my guest is , a friend and scholar who recently completed his PhD in Cultural Geography from The University of Edinburgh where his research centered on themes of displacement and memorial walking practices in the Highlands of...
03.05.2024
S5 #3 | We Are Not Americans w/ Healani Sonoda-Pale (Ka Lahui Hawai'i)
My guest on this episode is Healani Sonoda-Pale, a Kanaka Maoli Human Rights advocate for Self-Determination and a Water Protector who has been organizing at the intersection of the indigenous struggle for liberation and environmental protection in Hawai'i. She is a...
02.13.2024
S5 #2 | Composting Cultures of Disposability w/ Clementine Morrigan & Jay LeSoleil (F*****g Cancelled)
On this episode, my guests are and of the Podcast. Clementine Morrigan is a writer and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, ethics, relationships, sexuality, and trauma. A...
01.30.2024
S5 #1 | The Right to Stay Home w/ David Bacon
On this episode, my guest is David Bacon, a California writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, In the Fields...
10.06.2023
S4 #6 - Decoding Degrowth & Boosterism in the Balearics w/ Macia Blazquez
On this episode of The End of Tourism Podcast, my guest is Macià Blázquez-Salom, a professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, who specializes in the Geography of Tourism, Territorial Planning, Sustainability and Degrowth. He utilizes his teaching and...
09.19.2023
S4 #5 | The Many Faces of Exile in Exarcheia w/ Penny Travlou (Athens)
On this episode of the pod, my guest is Penny Travlou, a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Cultural Geography and Theory (Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art/University of Edinburgh). Her research focuses on social justice, the...
08.31.2023
S4 #4 | Feeding Those in Flight w/ No Name Kitchen (The Balkans)
On this episode, my guest is Barbara from No Name Kitchen, an independent movement working alongside the Balkans and the Mediterranean routes to promote humanitarian aid and political action for those who suffer the difficulties of extreme journeys and violent...
08.08.2023
S4 #3 | On the Lost Arts of Pilgrimage & Asking Permission w/ Nick Hunt
On this episode, my guest is Nick Hunt, the author of three travel books about journeys by foot, including Outlandish: Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Emergence, The Irish Times, New Internationalist, Resurgence & Ecologist...
07.18.2023
S4 #2 | Protesting Evictions, Expats & the Golden Visa w/ Stop Despejos (Lisbon)
On this episode of the End of Tourism Podcast, I’m joined by Joana and Davide of Stop Despejos (Stop Evictions). Based in Lisbon (Portugal), Stop Despejos is an anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist, horizontal political collective, fighting for the right to housing...
07.10.2023
S4 #1 | The Death of Venice w/ Petra Reski (Venice)
My guest on this episode is Petra Reski, a German writer and journalist who has lived in Venice since 1991. As a result of her numerous publications on the Mafia, she was subjected to lawsuits and threats, which is why...
06.20.2023
S3 #8 | Contending With 50 Years of the Tourist | Dean MacCannell
My guest on this episode is Dean MacCannell, a social analyst and critic whose writings on contemporary cultural arrangements have been translated worldwide. He is best known for his path-breaking book, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class....
06.07.2023
S3 #7 | On Travel Writing and Colonial Spells | Bani Amor
My guest on this episode is Bani Amor, a genderqueer travel writer who explores the relationships between race, place, and power. They’re a four-time Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation fellow with work in CNN Travel, Fodor’s, and AFAR, among others,...
05.24.2023
S3 #6 | The Hypermobile Medium is the Message | Andrew McLuhan (The McLuhan Institute)
My guest on this episode is Andrew McLuhan, an author and educator living in Bloomfield, Ontario. He writes and delivers speeches, classes, workshops on McLuhan methods and work, consults with individuals and companies on understanding McLuhan work in culture and...
05.15.2023
#0.5 | Responsibility, Repair and Radical Hospitality | Chris Christou
In this mini-episode, I offer up a little introduction into these extremely important themes, ones so often neglected in our time: responsibility, repair and radical hospitality. As locals and foreigners alike, depending on where we are at any given moment,...
05.01.2023
S3 #5 | Hacking the Housing Crisis | Murray Cox (Inside Airbnb)
My guest on this episode is Murray Cox, a multidisciplinary Australian-American artist and activist based in Newburgh NY, who uses visual, audio, spatial and data storytelling to explore themes of economic and racial equity and to fight for housing justice...
04.11.2023
S3 #4 | The Old Country, the Dead and Justice | Stephen Jenkinson (Orphan Wisdom)
On this episode, I'm honoured to host and welcome back to the pod, my dear friend, Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW. Stephen is a worker, author, storyteller, musician and culture activist. In 2010, he founded Orphan Wisdom, a house for learning...
03.17.2023
S3 #3 | Indigenous Travellers in the Heart of Empire | Cecilia Morgan
On this episode, I speak to Cecilia Morgan, a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Canada as part of the British Empire and transnational...
02.27.2023
S3 #2 | Decolonizing Conservation in Africa & Beyond | Fiore Longo (Survival International)
On this episode, my guest is Fiore Longo, a Research and Advocacy Officer at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples. She is the director of Survival International France and Survival International Spain. Fiore coordinates Survival’s conservation campaign, and...
02.13.2023
S3 #1 | On Finding Home in the Ruins | Dougald Hine (A School Called HOME)
On this, the first episode of Season 3: Invocations, my guest is Dougald Hine, a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called...
01.06.2023
S2 #7.2 | Reflections: "Barbarians of Oaxaca: Get Out" | Chris Christou (ENG)
This is the last episode of Season 2: Mexico, entitled "Barbarians of Oaxaca: Get Out". In honor of our late, dear friend and mentor, Gustavo Esteva, along with myself and fellow Unitierra Oaxaca Wendy Juarez, we have put together a...
01.02.2023
S2 #7.1 | Reflexiones: "Fuera Los Barbaros de Oaxaca" | Wendy Juarez & Chris Christou (Unitierra Oaxaca)
Esto es el ultimo episodio de la Temporada 2: México: Fuera los Barbaros de Oaxaca. En honor a nuestro difunto, querido amigo y mentor, Gustavo Esteva, junto conmigo y la compañera Wendy Juarez de la Unitierra Oaxaca, hemos reunido una...
12.01.2022
S2 #6 | Identidad, Apropiación Cultural y la Posibilidad de Peregrinaje Entre Culturas | Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
En este episodio, nuestra invitada es Yásnaya Aguilar, una escritora, lingüista, traductora, investigadora y activista originaria de Ayutla Mixe, Oaxaca. Ella estudió la licenciatura en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica, así como la Maestría en Lingüística en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma...
11.21.2022
S2 #5.2 | The Voices of the Workers | Maria Itaki & Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran (ENG)
In this episode, we are joined by friends in Oaxaca, Maria Itaka and Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran. Born and raised in Oaxaca, María has a major in English Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a specialization...
11.08.2022
S2 #5.1 | Las Voces Trabajadoras | Maria Itaka & Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran (ESP)
En este episodio, nos acompanamos unos compas de Oaxaca, Maria Itaka y Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran. María nació y creció en Oaxaca. Es licenciada en Letras y Literatura Inglesa por la UNAM y cuenta con una especialidad en Traducción. Tras varios años...
10.27.2022
S2 #4.2 | Without Plurality, There Can Be No Hospitality | Elias Gomez Gonzalez (ENG)
On this episode, I am accompanied by a dear philosopher, writer, and friend, Elías González Gómez. Elias focuses on interreligious dialogue and the bridge between mysticism and the struggle to build a new world. He has collaborated with different interreligious...
10.17.2022
S2 #4.1 | Sin Pluralidad, No Hay Hospitalidad | Elias Gomez Gonzalez (ESP)
En este episodio, me acompaña un querido amigo filósofo y escritor, Elías González Gómez. Elias enfoca en el diálogo interreligioso y en el puente entre la mística y las luchas por construir un mundo nuevo. Ha colaborado con distintos colectivos...
09.28.2022
S2 #3 | La Lucha Comunitaria Contra El Tren "Maya" | Pedro U.C. (Asamblea Múuch’ Xíinbal)
En este episodio, nuestro invitado es Pedro Regalado Uc Be, un escritor mexicano en lengua maya, poeta, narrador, traductor y activista. El es profesor en la Escuela de Creación Literaria del Centro Estatal de Bellas Artes (CEBA), plantel donde también...
09.16.2022
S2 #2.2 | Defending Land & Lineage from Psychedelic Tourism | Wirikuta Preservation Project (ENG)
The Wirikuta Preservation Project is an internationally-run endeavour to protect 500 acres of land for the Wixarika Nation in Estacion de Catorce in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Their mission is to preserve Wixarika sacred lands & cultural...
09.05.2022
S2 #2.1 | Defendiendo Tierra y Cultura del Turismo Psicodélico | Wirikuta Preservation Project (ESP)
El Proyecto de Preservación de Wirikuta es un proyecto internacional para proteger 500 acres de tierra para la Nación Wixarika en la Estación de Catorce en el estado de San Luis Potosí, México. Su misión es preservar las tierras sagradas...
08.03.2022
S2 #1 | Resistiendo el Espectáculo en Oaxaca | Marcos Esmar
En este episodio, me acompaña Marcos Esmar. Maros nació en el año de 1996 en Cosoltepec, Oaxaca. Es estudiante autodidactica, se dedica a hacer rap y a la escritura, participa en el colectivo Espiral de Pensamiento Crítico, proyecto en el...
07.15.2022
S1 #16 | Tourism, Colonialism, and Disease | Christopher Riendeau
On this episode I’m joined by Christopher Riendeau, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he learned first hand what it means to live in a tourist town. Chris’ research focuses on...
06.29.2022
S1 #15 | On Getting Lost, Making Sanctuary, and Courting Monsters | Bayo Akomolafe
On this episode, our guest is Bayo Akomolafe, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet. But when he takes himself less seriously, he is a father to Alethea and Kyah, and the grateful life-partner to Ej...
06.12.2022
#0.4 | Your Host, My Story
Ep 0.4 | Your Host, My Story In this mini-episode, I offer you a little bit about what brought me to court and conjure The End of Tourism Podcast. I speak to the dilemmas that touched me as a young person,...
06.02.2022
S1 #14 | Confronting Privilege, Identity and Guilt Trips | Dr. Anu Taranath
On this episode, our guest is Dr. Anu Taranath, a speaker, educator, and racial equity consultant who partners with a range of people to deepen conversations on history, harm and healing. A professor at the University of Washington for the past 20+ years,...
05.23.2022
S1 #13 | Rites of Passage in an Age of Fugitivity | Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)
On this episode, our guest is Ian MacKenzie, a filmmaker and writer who lives on the Salish Sea with his partner and young son. For over 13 years, he’s been tracking the global emergence of new culture. From the desert of...
04.25.2022
S1 #12 | Neoshamanism, Burning Man, and Scorched Earth Tourism | Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author. His books include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, and How Soon Is Now? From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation He is a...
04.04.2022
S1 #11 | The Anti-Conquest, Travel Writing, and Planetary Consciousness | Mary Louise Pratt
On this episode, our guest is Mary Louise Pratt, a Professor Emerita at NYU and author of the pioneering decolonial work on travel writing entitled Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Her new book Planetary Longings is out now through...
03.14.2022
S1 #10 | Ecotourism, Catharsis, and Post-Capitalist Dreaming | Robert Fletcher
On this episode, our guest is Robert Fletcher, an environmental anthropologist and author at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Robert is based in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. A former ecotourism guide, he...
03.07.2022
#0.3 | Expectation and Entitlement
Season Zero #0.3 | Expectation and Entitlement In this mini-episode, I speak about the expectation and entitlement that follows tourists into foreign lands, how it becomes embedded into the minds and places of tourists' hosts, and how the tourism industry encourages...
02.22.2022
S1 #9 | 30 Years of Rethinking Tourism & Ecotravel | Deborah McLaren
On this episode we are joined by activist and author Deborah McLaren. Deborah McLaren has worked with Indigenous and rural communities for 25 years, helping to analyze and advocate for tourism issues and rights. These include land, intellectual property, cultural, environmental...
02.01.2022
S1 #8 | Pivoting Towards the Sacred | Day Schildkret (Morning Altars)
On this episode we are joined by friend and fellow scholar, Day Schildkret of Morning Altars. Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as the author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life...
01.19.2022
S1 #7 | Grounding B******t Flights | Samie Blasingame (Stay Grounded)
On this episode we are joined by Samie Blasingame, the communications campaigner for the Stay Grounded Network. Stay Grounded is a global network of more than 180 member organisations, among them local airport opposition and climate justice groups, NGOs, trade unions,...
01.02.2022
S1 #6.2 | A World Where Many Worlds Belong | Gustavo Esteva (Unitierra Oaxaca)
On this episode, our guest is Gustavo Esteva, a "deprofessionalized" social activist, author, and elder. I sat down with Gustavo in his house on the edge of a small Zapotec town to discuss the legacy of interculturality, radical hospitality, the...
12.14.2021
S1 #6.1 | The Conquest and the Great Escape | Gustavo Esteva (Unitierra Oaxaca)
On this episode, our guest is Gustavo Esteva, a "deprofessionalized" social activist, author, and elder. I sat down with Gustavo in his house on the edge of a small Zapotec town to discuss the legacy of tourism in Oaxaca, how...
12.05.2021
S1 #5 | Neighbourhood Resistance and Resilience | Daniel Pardo (ABDT | Barcelona)
On this episode, our guest is Daniel Pardo, an organizer of various neighbourhood organizations in Barcelona, including ABDT (the Assembly of Neighborhoods for Tourism Degrowth). I caught up with Daniel and friend Ana Elia to speak about Barcelona, what has...
11.30.2021
#0.2 | Escape, Exile and Culture
Season Zero: Episode 0.2 Escape, Exile and Culture In this mini-episode, I speak about escape and exile and how each are deeply entwined aspects of the tourist world. As a result of each, culture suffers or is (mis)appropriated both in tourist...
11.19.2021
S1 #4 | All is Not Well in Paradise | Kahu Kaleo Patterson (Pacific Justice & Reconciliation Center)
On this episode our guest is Kahu Kaleo Patterson, an indigenous Hawai'ian priest and tourism activist. Kaleo joins us to discuss the ongoing tourism pandemic on the islands, grassroots organizing in Hawai'i, his decades of community activism and involvement, tourist...

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The End of Tourism episodes:

S5 #6 | Relearning Home & Hospitality w/ Manish Jain (Ecoversities)

#0.6 | Spectacle, The Senses and Surveillance w/ Chris Christou

S5 #5 | Fortress Conservation in the Congo w/ Martin Lena & Linda Poppe (Survival International)

S5 #4 | Hillwalking & Homecoming in the Highlands w/ Christos Galanis

S5 #3 | We Are Not Americans w/ Healani Sonoda-Pale (Ka Lahui Hawai'i)

S5 #2 | Composting Cultures of Disposability w/ Clementine Morrigan & Jay LeSoleil (F*****g Cancelled)

S5 #1 | The Right to Stay Home w/ David Bacon

S4 #6 - Decoding Degrowth & Boosterism in the Balearics w/ Macia Blazquez

S4 #5 | The Many Faces of Exile in Exarcheia w/ Penny Travlou (Athens)

S4 #4 | Feeding Those in Flight w/ No Name Kitchen (The Balkans)

S4 #3 | On the Lost Arts of Pilgrimage & Asking Permission w/ Nick Hunt

S4 #2 | Protesting Evictions, Expats & the Golden Visa w/ Stop Despejos (Lisbon)

S4 #1 | The Death of Venice w/ Petra Reski (Venice)

S3 #8 | Contending With 50 Years of the Tourist | Dean MacCannell

S3 #7 | On Travel Writing and Colonial Spells | Bani Amor

S3 #6 | The Hypermobile Medium is the Message | Andrew McLuhan (The McLuhan Institute)

#0.5 | Responsibility, Repair and Radical Hospitality | Chris Christou

S3 #5 | Hacking the Housing Crisis | Murray Cox (Inside Airbnb)

S3 #4 | The Old Country, the Dead and Justice | Stephen Jenkinson (Orphan Wisdom)

S3 #3 | Indigenous Travellers in the Heart of Empire | Cecilia Morgan

S3 #2 | Decolonizing Conservation in Africa & Beyond | Fiore Longo (Survival International)

S3 #1 | On Finding Home in the Ruins | Dougald Hine (A School Called HOME)

S2 #7.2 | Reflections: "Barbarians of Oaxaca: Get Out" | Chris Christou (ENG)

S2 #7.1 | Reflexiones: "Fuera Los Barbaros de Oaxaca" | Wendy Juarez & Chris Christou (Unitierra Oaxaca)

S2 #6 | Identidad, Apropiación Cultural y la Posibilidad de Peregrinaje Entre Culturas | Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

S2 #5.2 | The Voices of the Workers | Maria Itaki & Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran (ENG)

S2 #5.1 | Las Voces Trabajadoras | Maria Itaka & Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran (ESP)

S2 #4.2 | Without Plurality, There Can Be No Hospitality | Elias Gomez Gonzalez (ENG)

S2 #4.1 | Sin Pluralidad, No Hay Hospitalidad | Elias Gomez Gonzalez (ESP)

S2 #3 | La Lucha Comunitaria Contra El Tren "Maya" | Pedro U.C. (Asamblea Múuch’ Xíinbal)

S2 #2.2 | Defending Land & Lineage from Psychedelic Tourism | Wirikuta Preservation Project (ENG)

S2 #2.1 | Defendiendo Tierra y Cultura del Turismo Psicodélico | Wirikuta Preservation Project (ESP)

S2 #1 | Resistiendo el Espectáculo en Oaxaca | Marcos Esmar

S1 #16 | Tourism, Colonialism, and Disease | Christopher Riendeau

S1 #15 | On Getting Lost, Making Sanctuary, and Courting Monsters | Bayo Akomolafe

#0.4 | Your Host, My Story

S1 #14 | Confronting Privilege, Identity and Guilt Trips | Dr. Anu Taranath

S1 #13 | Rites of Passage in an Age of Fugitivity | Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)

S1 #12 | Neoshamanism, Burning Man, and Scorched Earth Tourism | Daniel Pinchbeck

S1 #11 | The Anti-Conquest, Travel Writing, and Planetary Consciousness | Mary Louise Pratt

S1 #10 | Ecotourism, Catharsis, and Post-Capitalist Dreaming | Robert Fletcher

#0.3 | Expectation and Entitlement

S1 #9 | 30 Years of Rethinking Tourism & Ecotravel | Deborah McLaren

S1 #8 | Pivoting Towards the Sacred | Day Schildkret (Morning Altars)

S1 #7 | Grounding B******t Flights | Samie Blasingame (Stay Grounded)

S1 #6.2 | A World Where Many Worlds Belong | Gustavo Esteva (Unitierra Oaxaca)

S1 #6.1 | The Conquest and the Great Escape | Gustavo Esteva (Unitierra Oaxaca)

S1 #5 | Neighbourhood Resistance and Resilience | Daniel Pardo (ABDT | Barcelona)

#0.2 | Escape, Exile and Culture

S1 #4 | All is Not Well in Paradise | Kahu Kaleo Patterson (Pacific Justice & Reconciliation Center)

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