The End of Tourism

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. chrischristou.substack.com

The End of Tourism is a society podcast hosted by Chris Christou, with 75 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chris Christou hosts The End of Tourism, a society show with 75 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  S7 #6 | Border Work | Tyson Yunkaporta

  Jun 10, 20261h 9mS7

  <p>Show Notes</p><p>* Magpie Migrations</p><p>* Making ceremony among tourists</p><p>* From sacred entities to souvenirs</p><p>* Lawful voyaging: the three pillars of ancestral travel</p><p>* Culture-bound syndrome / sorry rocks</p><p>* Telling story / experiencing the more-than-human</p><p>* Sex tourism: The twisted impulses of sexual energy</p><p>* If you don’t move with the land, the land will move you</p><p>* Men’s and women’s business</p><p>* Falling in love with travel</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Chris Christou at chrischristou.substack.com/subscribe

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  Episode #5

  S7 #5 | Coastal Colonialism in Jamaica | Dr. Devon Taylor (JaBBEM)

  Apr 22, 202648 minS7

  <p>On this episode, my guest is Dr. Devon Taylor, the President of the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM), an advocacy group founded in 2022 that fights for equitable beach access and environmental justice in Jamaica. He is a Biomedical Research Scientist and environmental and social justice advocate who leads efforts to repeal the colonial-era Beach Control Act of 1956, which he describes as discriminatory and a barrier to public access.</p><p>JABBEM uses legal tools, including the Prescription Act of 1882, to establish long-standing community rights to beaches and rivers. The group is currently involved in multiple court cases, including...

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  S7 #4 | The Sufi Guest House | Kerim Güç (Kerim Vakfı)

  Mar 18, 202644 minS0

  <p>On this episode, my guest is Hasan Kerim Güç. Kerim graduated from Istanbul High School in 1992 and from Yildiz Technical University in 1996. Between 1997-2004, he completed his master's degree in Information Systems and Business Administration in Baltimore, USA. He returned to Turkey in 2010. Realizing that the treasure he had been looking for for 14 years was right in his own home, he took the position of Chief Editor at Nefes Publishing House in 2014. Kerim nourishes his business life with Sufi studies and is pursuing a doctoral degree from the Usküdar University Institute for Sufi Studies. He has published four boo...

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  S7 #3 | Gentrification: Intersectionality & Invisibility | Leslie Kern

  Feb 18, 20261h 2mS7

  <p>On this episode, my guest is Leslie Kern, PhD, the author of three books about cities, including Gentrification Is Inevitable And Other Lies and Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. Her work provokes new ways of thinking about and creating cities that are more just, equitable, caring, and sustainable. Leslie was an associate professor of geography and environment and women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University from 2009-2024. Today, she is a public speaker, writer, and career coach for authors and academics.</p><p>Show Notes</p><p>* Gentrification and touristification</p><p>* Naturalization of ge...

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  S7 #2 | Animism, Healing and Psychedelic Tourism | Adam Aronovich (Healing From Healing)

  Jan 21, 20261h 28mS7

  <p>Show Notes</p><p>Adam’s doctoral thesis and time in the Amazon</p><p>Iatrogenesis and Healing Culture</p><p>Epistemic Humility</p><p>Our Traumadelic Stories</p><p>Clash in Understandings of Causation</p><p>Disneyfication of Plant Medicine</p><p>Individual vs Relational Healing</p><p>Psychedelic Tourism’s Local Consequences</p><p>Spirit Realm Fallout</p><p>Animistic Perspective</p><p>Narrative, Cults, and Conspirituality</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Chris Christou at chrischristou.substack.com/subscribe

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