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Re:The World of Fake Vacation Destinations by ido on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:17AM (#13258477)
Quite self righteous. People go to these resorts because they can't afford (time and/or money-wise) going on an actual exotic vacation.

Don't know about the indoors skiing in Dubai but I'm pretty sure the Tropical Island resort in Germany is less harmful to the environment than the equivalent number of Germans flying many 1000s of kilometers to an actual tropical island and back.

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Re:The World of Fake Vacation Destinations by danso on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:28AM (#13258524)
I couldn't help but think that the photographer profiled here suffers from a skewed perspective. As a professional photographer, he's used to traveling internationally to do a shoot, so he might think of it as no big deal for a New Jersey family to head out to the Adirondacks or Aspen for real skiing, as opposed to going to the planned mega-mall with indoor slopes [0].

[0] http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/meadowlands_ski_par...

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