Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism Becker ElizabethPaperback
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism Becker ElizabethPaperback In this "meticulously reported and often disturbing expos of the travel industry." (The New York Times Book Review),…
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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism Becker ElizabethPaperback
In this "meticulously reported and often disturbing expos of the travel industry." (The New York Times Book Review), Elizabeth Becker describes the dimensions of this industry and its huge effect on the world economy, the environment, and our culture.Employing one out of twelve people in the world, the travel and tourism industry exploded at the end of the Cold War. Now everything can be packaged as a tour: with the high cost of medical care in the U.S., Americans are booking a vacation and an operation in countries like Turkey for a fraction of the cost at home.Elizabeth Becker travels the world to take the measure of the business: France invented the travel business and is still its leader; Venice is expiring of over-tourism. In 2012 the number of tourists traveling the world reached one billion.
In Cambodia, tourists crawl over the temples of Angkor, jeopardizing
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