Journeys in an ironical land

I was at the COP climate conference in Egypt last week – and foresaw the end of tourism as we know it

The road to good intentions: Sharm el-Sheikh from the airport highway

November in a resort on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. It’s the breakfast buffet, and the guests are divided pretty equally into two groups. 

The first: teenage tennis players, here on a boot camp in the winter sun and to play a qualifying tournament. They are all nationalities and ethnicities,…