Russian travel agency Persey Tours specializes in forged vacations. And making it believable is the whole point.
- Without ever having to pack a bag, clients get full documentation – ticket stubs, fake photos, receipts – all for a trip they never took.
- According to Persey's founder and prevaricator-in-chief, Dmitry Popov, the company even faked a Russian space shuttle trip to the moon for a Siberian gas station owner
Ingenious; and probably much better for ones carbon footprint! [Wait, that's another advertising angle!]
However, it is interesting to stop and reflect about what it says about our culture. That going on holiday is something that is quite a bit about managing the perception those around us in everyday life have of us. In other words, it's about things like status and respect rather than rest, recuperation or personal growth. Perhaps, as Christians we should examine our own 'vacationing habits' with the question about why we do it. One of the purposes of doing so is to be able to develop new habits that don't cost the earth by contributing to the degradation of our planet. What do we really need from a holiday? What do we want? How far is what we want driven by 'unworthy' motives like gaining the respect or envy of others?
I would suggest that holidays should be in a Christian perspective about rest, recuperation of body, mind, soul relationships and Godwardness. For the most part, I have to question how far most of those aims, most of the time, require large amounts of fossil fuels to be burnt ...
But it's possible that there are other factors that I have not considered, and I want to invite further comments before we send the jury out to consider the verdict.
Iconoculture - Consumer Research Service: Trend Observation: Boomers/Matures:
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