Transatlantic Zeppelin: Destroying Dubrovnik, one cruise ship at a time

« A great job for $17.20/day | Main | Disney lights or Miss World? You Decide 2004. »

November 19, 2004

Destroying Dubrovnik, one cruise ship at a time

One of the interesting things about traveling is that one can start to recognize where various commercials are filmed, such as the Nissan commercial filmed at Thingvallavatn in Iceland. Now Celebrity and Cirque de Soleil are showing an ad where the people of Dubrovnik, Croatia, come running out of church, across the town's medieval walls, out the ancient gate, and onto a small quay at the end of town to watch the ship approach. The irony of this, as I write in the Dubrovnik entry below, is that cruise ships like Celebrity's pollute a small city like Dubrovnik with enormous numbers of day-tourists who contribute nothing to the local economy save a few kunas spent on a coke and a handicraft. And the quay shown on the ad is much more enjoyable in the evening when Croat teenagers come to compare mobile phones, old men sit and stare, and families let the kids run over the slippery rocks until the kids injure themselves.

Posted by adrianjo at November 19, 2004 09:59 PM