Commentary
Beneath Saigon’s simmering sun, amid the din and clangour of its estimated 7.3 million motorbikes, a murmur ran through the city’s streets, a whispered directive: that for travel to be truly moral, one must fundamentally “transform themselves” to “enact change” and to “manifest impact.” This was almost 10 years ago, during my time there as an overseas language teacher, a time when the previous, friendlier doctrine of “new tourism” was at its height.
