Socrates Group at The Hideaway Café & Restaurant

October 11

Socrates Group at The Hideaway Café & Restaurant. Their next meetings is:
October 14 Socrates Group at The Hideaway Café & Restaurant – You don’t want to live in a tourist town, but you want to be a tourist. 12 noon – In this Socrates Café, we’ll explore the tensions of two worlds colliding: Tourism as a lifeline of Chiang Mai’s economy vs. the burden it places on local life. Is modern tourism a form of soft colonialism—bringing in money while reshaping culture and priorities? Digital nomads often claim they want to “contribute to the local economy”—but how real is this contribution, and who truly benefits? Can locals, expats, and visitors find a sustainable way to coexist without eroding the city’s identity? This is not a debate, but a philosophical circle of questioning in the spirit of Socrates https://www.meetup.com/socrates-cafe-chiang-mai/events/311374847/?