> “The early-adopter travelers are already onto the next cool, cheap, relatively intact place,” Sheivachman says. Since the Skift article, the term has been widely applied to places like Barcelona, Venice, and Tulum to suggest that no one who’s in the know would want to go there anymore.

This might be true for certain countries who’s people have recently made a direct effort to subsidize tourism in an effort to increases it. But it’s just embarrassing to think anyone who is alive to comment now could claim to be an “early adopter” of a diverse and international city like Barcelona or Venice. These places have played host to cultural (and literal!) revolutions since before we were born and they’ll continue to do so after we’re all long dead, but perhaps there will always be someone to write a pretentious Vox article about how they know the real character of a city and others shouldn’t bother to try.