I'm glad I wasn't the only one to cringe at the lack of self-awareness on the part of the author at the inherent paradox of wanting something highly ranked by google but also quiet, cheap, and slow.

Here's a tip for the blog author. Learn a foreign language. Then search google in that foreign language. You might be surprised. Be the change you want to see.

I learned a foreign language (English), I search Google in that foreign language. My browser's language is set in that foreign language. My search parameters are set to only show results in English. I use Google.com, not my localized version of Google. And yet about half the time when I search using keywords (as opposed to long expressions), there are always two or three links in my language (French) in the first page results.

Youtube is worse, I have two YT accounts in English where I only watch videos in English, and Youtube keeps recommending me videos in French that are not relevant at all to my interests (even though most recommendations in English are perfectly relevant). It's as if their AI just saw my IP and decided to recommend to me the most popular French videos of the moment.

A VPN is what you need. Or perhaps simply changing your location would work, when I visited France I didn’t get any French-language results.

> A VPN is what you need.

What I needed was to use a different search engine. DuckDuckGo gives me a toggle to include or not French results.

ah! you had the solution all along!

Here's another tip. There are quiet, cheap, slow places you can go that don't require learning another language, or even going to another country. That's not what people really want though.

"You're not in traffic, you are traffic".

I saw this happen in Ko Phangan. By pure luck I was there for the first really big Full Moon Party. Watching the beautiful sleepy little town be engulfed by 30,000 locusts was an experience I’ll never forget.

I passed back through a few months later and barely recognised the place. Wooden chalets has given way to hotel rooms and beachside stalls to night clubs.

I have no idea what Koh Lanta is like, but the world has 1.11 million km of ice-free coastline. I'm also not sure what tourist amenities are, but you can probably build them anywhere you want.

Build with what money?

The whole point of even having tourist amenities is that there's a community that that's attempting to draw tourist money to their location, and probably create a thriving economy.

An unknown tourist attraction with amenities is a failed location where the amenities are unmaintained/dilapidated, the local economy has nosedived, the young have moved out and the population is collapsing.

I'm not disagreeing with the overall point, but when you say:

> there's a community that that's attempting to draw tourist money to their location, and probably create a thriving economy

Usually that's not how it works (at least from first-hand experience). It's about a local business/mafia trying to draw tourist money while exploiting cheap labor from the local community. Let's not even get started on the scheming to privatize public beaches, environmental pollution (noise, lights, trash) and other shenanigans the tourist industry is creating to the detriment of local communities.

The comment I replied to suggested that if tourists could find good places they'd become too busy. My reply was that if one spot becomes busy, it means places like that spot are profitable, and people will build more places on the million-kilometres of global coastline.

In the context of the discussion, I don't understand your question. The money comes from the hypothetical tourists who're hypothetically making all the usual spots too busy. What point are you making?