In a world overflowing with travel options, it’s easy to assume that all trips are created equal. A flight here, a hotel there, a packaged itinerary promising adventure and culture. But behind the glossy marketing of the world’s largest tourism companies lies a truth we rarely talk about: scale changes everything. There are only a handful of mass‑tourism giants on the planet,. three to five, depending on how you count them. We won’t name them; that’s not the point. What matte