Quote of Note

Aloha Kakou:

The other day, I found this quote from Serge Trigano, the son of Club Med’s founder, who believes that “people no longer want to wait for hours in airports in order to fly to exotic locations which are no longer especially exotic. The new tourism will be urban tourism, the discovery, or the re-discovery of great cities such as Paris or Amsterdam or London.”

What do you think? Is Maui's day past? Are tourists in search of the excitement and discovery afforded by great cities? Will a new type of tourist become prevalent, one that has "seen it all" and is always on the hunt for a new adventure? Or do you think that the return to the familiar is the future of tourism? That tourists want to go where it's comfortable, where everyone speaks the same language and uses the same money as they do?

http://www.tripso.com/today/this-trendy-new-paris-hotel-aint-the-ritz/