Es Hockt Im Tourismus Der Böse Geist Von Davos

Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forums (WEF) in Davos, is at the same time an active sponsor of the "Project Davos" and of the tourism industry in Davos.

The title of the study he commissioned with the University of Berne is: "Qualitative Raising of all Infrastructure for the Efficiency of the Congress and the Well-Being of the Participants".

The well-being of this elitist men's club is secured to a decisive degree by migrants. Migrants are not part of the agenda in Davos.

Globalizers (USA/EU) are trying with ever greater technical efforts and racist laws to exclude migrants from the riches – not completely however:

Highly qualified specialists for the multinationals and lowest-income workers in the service sector are in demand.

The politics of the North in this context serves the purpose to restrict the rights and possibilities of migrants so that they can be kept in an almost indefinitely exploitable position.

Increasingly, in the centers of North America and Europe, a large informal sector with extremely miserable working conditions is appearing next to the multinational corporations. This is where women are exploited in more than one sense - as domestic servants, in prostitution or as wives. The non-recognition of reasons to flee that are specific to women serves to illegalize women and forces them into a status in which they have no rights. This forces them to offer their own resources to extremely low wages. In labor migration so-called "unqualified" and correspondingly underpaid personnel is employed under seasonal contracts, namely in the tourism industry. Tourism serves primarily the recreation of the white, male "Homo Oeconomicus" and is seen as the opposite of work.

Tourism serves to satisfy needs.

In the needs-satisfying sector there is a demand for activities and skills which are traditionally attributed to women and, following patriarchal patterns, are not valued much.

It is a sector of the economy with a strikingly high percentage of waged working women and at the same time a sector in which a large number of migrants are employed.

The tourism sector is a small-scale model of the hierarchical and gendered division of labor in society.

A small part of the population enjoys the right to travel freely and affords itself unlimited mobility and freedom of movement as tourists.

The WTO and the OECD advise notably countries of the South to invest in tourism. World-wide tourism is one of the most important sectors of the economy, and a substantial growth is predicted for the future.

A few large companies and investors from the North dominate this "white industry" by repatriating their profits from Southern countries. At the same time the cost involved in maintaining the attractivity of the tourism location as well as the infrastructure needed are left up to the tourism region.

In addition the exploitation of "culture" and "nature" has devastating ecological and social consequences.

The "World Economy" celebrated each year in Davos relies to a large degree on the unscrupulously exploited, extremely underpaid labor of migrants here in our countries, and of women all over the world. The activities traditionally defined as "female" that women in the highly industrialized countries partly refuse to take over to a sufficient extent are not being abolished or distributed fairly between women and men. They are assigned to people, and especially women, on other continents.

In Tourism Lies the Bad Spirit of Davos