Great report
On the Riviera Maya, the underside of mass tourism
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Cancún, Mexico.
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By: Gwendolina Duval
1 min
With their turquoise waters and white sand, the beaches of the Mexican Caribbean are a world apart… a heavenly setting, yet full of paradoxes.
First, it's as if the pandemic had almost never existed.
Cancun and the Riviera Maya (the coastline stretching south for 200 km) is now one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.
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Tourist activity has resumed at full speed and continues to develop at a frenetic pace: on the coast, tourists are flocking, hotels are being built, the landscapes are changing at high speed... And behind the scenes, there is the standard of living of the Mexicans on the spot which is precarious and impoverished at the same rate. The crisis has shown that the locals depend more than ever on tourism and participate willy-nilly in this industry and its many shortcomings to live or survive from day to day.
"On the Riviera Maya, the underside of mass tourism", a great report by Gwendolina Duval.
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