The Final Call: In Search of the True Cost of Our Holidays

The Final Call: In Search of the True Cost of Our Holidays image
ISBN-10:

1903919991

ISBN-13:

9781903919996

Author(s): Hickman, Leo
Released: Jun 04, 2007
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
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Description:

We are all excited tourists. And tourism is the biggest service industry in the world. It employs one in every 11 workers on the planet. Yet while it is built on the sale of fantasies, the unsettling truth is that behind the sunny façade of swimming pools, smiling locals, stunning sights, and exquisite cuisine, there is all too often an ugly, damaging reality and it is spreading unchecked to all corners of the globe. This is an investigative travelogue written as Hickman journeys around the world, from theme park to golf course, from sunlounger to ecolodge. At each destination we hear from the key protagonists: the holidaymaker, waiter, hotelier, souvenir-seller, prostitute, environmentalist, tour guide, chambermaid, and local politician. All of them want us to ask ourselves some hard questions: Who really pays for our trip away? And is it even possible to have a "good" vacation? Here is the story of what they don’t tell you in the glossy brochures.

























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