Ah, the Sea!

That there is something absolutely abhorrent about tourism is old news. I once read it destroys only those places that are dead anyway.

However, in case of Dubrovnik - much more interesting was that it was described in the beginning of the c20; so - long before its heyday in the 80s.

It was done by Ivo Vojnovic in one of his plays. A group of dumbly rollicking Austrians enter the close of the play, where the whole drama of a world coming to an end is shown - completely unaware they are on a graveyard.

(Maybe even worse are those that pretend in their claim to knowledge and even pass moral judgements, but that's obviously another story. It seems any way you look at it - the indigenous and the external are not a happy mix.)

I have always been repulsed by that Shawian sentence of Dbk being the pearl of the Adriatic.
My suggestion for the slogan has always been: Come to Dubrovnik. You will find us and yourselves.

A word for humanities?