The Future of Tourism: Part 1

Peter Zeihan 4 min

Travelers must prioritize long-term stability over beauty because demographics and deglobalization are smashing the old model. Many countries people like to think they want to visit aren't going to be options for much longer.

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Chapters

  1. 0:00

    The Global Context for Tourism

    Demographics and deglobalization are destroying old travel models, forcing a shift toward stability over beauty. China's collapse will cut off funding to developing nations, ending many investment-backed travel options.

  2. 1:23

    India: Growth with Growing Pains

    India will grow but face massive social stress that alters its tourism profile.

  3. 2:09

    Brazil: Economic Breakdown

    Brazil faces infrastructure standstill and social breakdown due to lost Chinese investment.

Key points

  • 0:00

    Demographics and deglobalization are smashing the old model of travel.

  • 0:00

    Travelers must prioritize stability over beauty as global trade collapses.

  • 0:00

    China's collapse will cut off funding to many developing nations.

  • 0:00

    China views money as a political good rather than an investment.

  • 1:23

    India will enter a great growth period but face massive social stress.

  • 1:23

    Social stress will change the tourism profile of India.

  • 2:09

    Brazil loses reliable access to agricultural inputs if globalization fails.

  • 2:09

    Brazilian infrastructure spending will come to a standstill without Chinese investment.

  • 2:09

    China stole Brazilian intellectual property and drove local industry out of business.

  • 2:09

    Brazil must reinvent itself over a thirty-year process.

  • 2:09

    Brazil will suffer immense social and economic breakdown in the meantime.

  • 2:09

    Tourism in Brazil will show concentrated disparities with rich pockets surrounded by slums.

Who and where

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  • Drawing of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 1

    president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023

    Photo 1

1. Photo: Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Wikidata · redrawn in our house style (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva)

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