Tourism

Tourism isn’t just destructive if you travel to a place with a weak economy where your currency disrupts the economy and elephants get abused so you can ride them.
Your airbnb and hip restaurant in a European capital are pushing low income people out of the city and turning millenia old inhabited cities into ghost towns that exist solely for tourists.
You are not ‘putting money into the economy’ in a good way anywhere, you are contributing to an economy dominated by rich landlords, an economy that can’t function without tourists and values their money over the actual people that live there.
Fuck tourism all the time everywhere.

Edit: the first response I got to this was a question about how to travel ethically. I probably would have foreseen that people would immediately seek personal consumption solutions to this rather than structural resistance to tourism.

If not dirtying your own hands with problematic consumption is your thing: start from the consideration that your desire to travel is not more important than other people’s need to live. That may mean never seeing a pretty place you wanted to see. Too bad.

But more important: realise that most of the damage is being done by rich tourists who are never going to care about the poor. resist tourism structurally. Reject the idea that tourism makes places better. Make your own city unwelcoming towards tourists.