Is Tourism Gentrifying Mexico?

In Oaxaca, Mexico, there’s a growing trend of Canadian snowbirds buying up beachfront land, being promised that these properties will be the perfect vacation home. The problem is, the land that is being developed is not up for grabs. It’s communally owned by Indigenous and rural residents.

Erin chats with Dawn Marie Paley, a journalist and author based in Mexico who covered this phenomenon in a piece for Breach Media, to unpack why this is able to happen, and how gentrification and tourism is impacting Mexico. Because lets be real, it sounds pretty colonial.

Erin and Kattie also discuss some recent travel news around New York City's ban on Airbnb, and Egypt's new visa restrictions for Canadian travellers.

Links: 

• Read Dawn's Article on The Breach: Canadian developers are gentrifying Mexico’s beaches 
• LISTEN: Media Indigena with Rick Harp: Why settlers may be the ultimate tourists
• Dawn Marie Paley on Twitter 
• YouTube: A Walk Thru Gringo Hill - Sayulita, Mexico 
• https://www.ojala.mx/ 
• Egypt imposes new restrictions on Canadian travellers
• This Is the True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse
• New York City’s 'De Facto Ban' on Airbnb

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Written and Hosted by: Erin Hynes
Producer: Kattie Laur
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