The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1668011778 ISBN13: 9781668011775 Release Date: June 2024 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Length: 288 Pages Weight: 0.95 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.5" A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse--essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust. Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe--from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat--The New Tourist lifts the veil 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 p