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Title: Tourism Isn't The Answer To Global Inequality
Review: The internet changed everything, and it changes issues raised in this book (example -- the Twitter domino democracy starting in Egypt). Today you can go on 'virtual tours' so basing an entire 'bridge' economy on tourism shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the first and third worlds. The problems of inequality stem from the lines of governmental forms and corruption, as opposed to increasingly spendy upbeat tourists (which the book focused on). The internationalist movement described had little real power, because the people involved were persecuted by their respective regimes.In short, an older idealism even back in it's day. Outdated and not worth reading, unless you are interested in the political-based advertising of third world tourism in the 1970-1980's.
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