Travel and Tourism

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1. Compare the views of tourism expressed in text to with those of some of the other texts. In the text named ‘Backpackers hit the tourist trail’ written by Sarah Hall, she expresses how she feels about the extensive tourism of backpackers. She starts off by quoting the writer Alex Garland, author of the book The Beach, who states that it’s impossible to keep such places as Bali or Borocay to yourself and avoid the tourism that undoubtedly will increase in the near future. These remarkable cultural places are, according to Alex Garland, infected by mass tourism. He says that you can’t keep the hordes out of Lonely Planet, and once they (the tourists) ‘take over’ the place “it’s countdown to doomsday”. Sarah Hall afterwards describes her view on those who call themselves ‘backpackers’. Making fun of their ‘thirst for adventure and desire to save the world’ she accuses them of staying a part of the safe ‘tourist bubble’, being too lazy to try the local specialties and experience the local environment, but instead just eating pizza and drinking milkshakes like at home. She basically says that none of the young people who call themselves ‘backpackers’ understand the real point of backpacking, and shows that she is rather disappointed with the evolution of tourism. A person, who seems to agree with her, is the author of text number 4, Pico Iyer, who with the text “Video Night in Kathmandu” accuses the tourists of spoiling the places they visit. He describes how the Western tourists visit the set-up places in the East, thinking that they are experiencing something old, authentic and real. According to Pico Iyer every tourist drags a big of the new developments from the West with them to the authentic places, which both Sarah Hall and himself thinks contributes in ruining the precious places. For instance they both mention how they think Bali is an island spoiled by

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