The New Tourist, Paige McClanahan
The New Tourist, Paige McClanahan
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The New Tourist
Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

Author: Paige McClanahan

Narrator: Paige McClanahan

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2024

Synopsis

“A genuinely helpful framework for thinking about our own voyages” (The Atlantic), The New Tourist explores how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse, and offers essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust.

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?

“Engaging and thoughtful” (Kirkus Reviews) and filled with page-turning revelations, The New Tourist spotlights painful truths but also delivers a message of hope: that the right kind of tourism—and the right kind of tourist—can be a powerful force for good.

About Paige McClanahan

Paige McClanahan is an American journalist based in France. A regular contributor to The New York Times, she has reported from more than a dozen countries, writing for publications like The Guardian, the BBC, and The Washington Post, among many others. Her reporting has covered multilateral trade negotiations, humanitarian crises, economic development, and, for the past five years, the tourism industry. Her travel journalism has been recognized by The Society of American Travel Writers and the North American Travel Journalists Association. A graduate of Williams College and Duke University, she has lived in five countries since she left the United States in 2008.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine

As someone who has done my share touring, I was quite interested in Paige McClanahan's new book. Paige is a wonderful travel writer who writes for the travel section of the New York Times and has quite a lot of insights that she has put together in this concise book about the travel industry and how......more

Goodreads review by Brendan

The New Tourist is a book that questions but can't fully bring itself to challenge or object to the rise of tourism, especially international tourism. McClanahan starts with a brief history of modern tourism. She explains that as international tourism exploded from 25 million to 500 million over the......more

Goodreads review by Jamele (BookswithJams)

Thank you to Simon & Schuster for the free copy to review. As someone who loves to travel I was very interested in this book and how tourists impact the places they go. For the most part I thought it was positive but I also know not everyone has an appreciation for the culture and land that they are......more

Quotes

"Paige McClanahan has an appealing voice and narrates persuasively at a good pace. She gives this audiobook a sense of her lived experience as a travel writer, reporter, and thoughtful interpreter of the world of travel...And her writing is leavened with close observations of the pleasures and pitfalls of tourism."

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