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Trapped by Tourism
Sustainability Questions for a World Fueled by Travelers
By: Larry Krotz
Hardcover | 15 October 2024
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Travel was once something that through our encounters with the world changed us. Now it has become something through which we change the world.
Twenty-five years ago, two things made mass tourism possible: cheap air travel and the credit card. The world has come a long way since then--and very quickly--from the need for either travel agents or traveler's checks. From the now-vast cruise ship industry to a myriad of niche areas such as do-good tourism, self-improvement tourism, sex tourism, and adventure tourism, travel--as an industry and an activity--reaches into corners and has developed on scales not hitherto imagined.
In Trapped by Tourism: Sustainability Questions for a World Fueled by Travelers, Larry Krotz explores the tensions that formed with the rise of mass tourism, focusing on what travelers want vs what travelers do and the sustainability of tourism itself, both as it plays out in economies and as a factor impacting natural and cultural environments. We will never shut down tourism. We are destined to have it and to participate in it. But what truly are its implications for the world we live in? If communities and governments seek economic benefits, they must also look at the trade-offs: commodification of cultures, economic unfairness, environmental stresses, and much more. By delving into examples ranging from the wine industry to Indigenous communities, Krotzlooks at how what we do and how we do it affects important corners of the world, and how awareness has developed about steering the impacts in ways that work for everybody.
Trapped by Tourism takes readers around the world to locations such as the old cities of Europe, Indigenous communities in North America and Africa, wine growing regions in Canada, the island of Cuba, and Cathedral towns in England; places where tourism as an economic driver come up against environmental or cultural forces that push in exactly the opposite direction, creating tensions within today's mass tourism. The result is a thoughtful and provocative framework that encourages readers and travelers alike to consider an ever-growing component of our culture--the way we travel and the impact we leave behind.
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Larry Krotz's book could easily have been titled The Thoughtful Traveler: one who boards trains, boats, or planes not only to get away but to reflect about the activity. To travel, Krotz tells us, is to be of two minds about travel, and that is not because being away sometimes denies us the comforts of home but because travel is a double-edged sword. Travel can be a positive and pleasurable experience, but it can also compromise locals and impact the global environment. There is no getting away from its nature. Krotz gently persuades us that we should not even try to avoid the tension but instead live with it and love it.
--David Berlin, founding editor, "Walrus" magazineISBN: 9781538196465
ISBN-10: 1538196468
Published: 15th October 2024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.43
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