Downtown Kashgar, Xinjiang is beautiful, but it is also very touristy. Are we having an authentic experience when we visit? Or are we in “Uighur Disneyland”? How does China balance development and preservation, and what is the future for an ancient Silk Road town?
Western empire ramping up every tired lie and play in the book to keep us distracted from surveillance fascist state at home.
For sure. In this video they do a pretty good debunking of that trope/accusation.
Tourism industry by definition means plugging the locals’ culture into a wider market. That’s going to change it
Yeah. Certain things are unavoidable if you want to have tourism as a major source of income. The real question is whether it was worth it to open up to tourism, and i think that the locals themselves have answered in the affirmative. They are the ones who keep opening up more and more tourism related enterprises because it is making them money and helping the entire region to develop. Of course it would also be a mistake to have your economy center solely around tourism, but luckily this is definitely not happening in Xinjiang. It has numerous other industries that are just as big or even bigger, such as agriculture, mining, energy sector related industries, and even some important high tech industries in the city of Urumqi.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
