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The new tourist : waking up to the power and perils of travel

ISBN: 9781668011782
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Origin: US
Release Date: May, 2025

Book Details

Through deep and insightful dispatches from tourist spots around the globe–from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat– The New Tourist shines a light on an industry that accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide and generates nearly ten percent of global GDP. How did a once-niche activity become the world’s most important means of contact across cultures? When does tourism destroy the soul of a city, and when does it offer a place a new lease on life? Is “last chance tourism” prompting a powerful change in perspective–or driving places we love further into the ground?