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Is Tourism Destroying the World?
Travel is transforming the world, and not always for the better.
Though it’s an uncomfortable reality (who doesn’t like to travel?), it’s something award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker devoted five years of her life to investigating.
- National Geographic
The result is Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism.
I caught up with the author to get the inside scoop on the book, what prompted her to write it, and what she learned along the way, and this is what she had to say.
Leslie Trew Magraw: You made a name for yourself as a war correspondent covering Cambodia for The Washington Post.
What prompted you…