But then, most pleasurable activities associated with summer have been placed on the danger list this year. Those flying abroad have been warned that they risk everything from deep-vein thrombosis to environmental despoliation. Sunbathers have been told that to avoid the risk of skin cancer they should stop going out covered in sun-block and holiday burka and stay indoors for the duration.
Swimmers have been warned off familiar rivers and seas, apparently because experts have discovered that it is possible to drown in deep water. And so it goes on. Mix in children with any aspect of fun in the sun and they declare martial law. Nor is it just summer holidays. All sorts of things that might once have been sung about as the joys of life are being paraded across the media to the morbid strains of the funeral march. The uplifting experience of parenthood is now deemed so emotionally painful that fathers as well as mothers are apparently to be offered counselling for postnatal depression on the NHS.
And the delights of good eating have been buried beneath off-putting stodge about supposedly toxic foodstuffs and dangerous diets. We are suffering under a regime of Institutionalised Miserabilism. Although often couched in the language of junk science, this systematic promotion of anxiety and fear is not really based on research into specific risks. Sustainable tourism: utopia or necessity?
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Preview 1 out of 9 pages Add to cart. If the rules are broken, establishments could be shut down. Rowdy pub crawls organised by tour companies will have much tighter controls next summer.
The names and ages of the members of the group will have to be registered with police and only 50 people will be able to take part in each crawl. They will be allowed to visit only four establishments, one of which must be a restaurant, and participants may have to wear identity wristbands.
Tour operators will have to give police the name of anyone failing to get on the coach back to the airport at the end of the holiday. The measures follow a summer of incidents that have brought Faliraki into disrepute. Last August, an year-old girl was arrested, jailed for two days and fined for flashing her breasts in a club, and year-old Paddy Duran was stabbed to death in a pub brawl.
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