Places become less distinctive when they become “destinations”

“The Caribbean holiday is a mass-marketed product as well as a place. Like a tin of fruit cocktail, the promise of a holiday experience has been manufactured out of the material and ideological resources available to contemporary culture. The “destination,” as they say in the business, is an integral part of the identity of the Caribbean holiday product at the same time as it’s strangely irrelevant: basically everything with sun and palm trees will do.”
–Alexander Wilson, The Culture of Nature (1991)

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