Rachelle Wilson Tollemar

Rachelle Wilson Tollemar is a lecturer (PhD) in 21st century Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies. She specializes in the contentious contact between work, capitalism, and the environment. In addition to lecturing, she is also a writer who tends to analyze socioeconomic injustices from ecofeminist and/or indigenous perspectives.

Mass tourism in Barcelona

Who really pays for your cheap flight?

Viewing mass tourism within this backdrop of degrading environments, cultures, and economic equality helps us all to critically understand that there is no such thing as a cheap flight. Someone, something, somewhere is paying for it. In my view, it is time to reconsider how travel is embarked on, to whom, for how many, and why.

December 8, 2025