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By D.L. | Jul 23, 2021
In October 2020, during the travel industry’s long winter, the reservation website Booking.com released a report, drawing on a survey of more than 20,000 travelers, predicting which trends would shape post-pandemic travel. In addition to traveling more locally and not surprisingly with more health and safety precautions in mind, a majority of respondents said they wanted to journey more sustainably. Covid-19, the report said, “has amped people’s awareness about their impact on the environment and local communities.”
Publishers seem to have intuited this trend: recent months have brought several travel books that put environmental awareness front and center. One of those is White Lion’s
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Arnie Weissmann Too soon? That s what comedians ask when a punchline that hinges on a recent morbid event falls flat. The comedian has misjudged the audience s receptiveness to the topic within a certain context.
Similarly, I m wondering about how the book Overtourism: Lessons for a Better Future (Island Press, 2021) will be received in May 2021.
Too soon? Too late?
Given the greatly reduced state of travel and tourism today, is the topic still relevant? Or, as tourism restarts, is it more necessary than ever?
In any case, I m not an objective reviewer. I wrote the book s first chapter, an overview of the development of overtourism: its causes, the travel industry s response and where I believe it s headed.
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Two months ago, Dominican-American couple Raquel and Junior Liriano drove eight hours from Puerto Plata to Bávaro, Punta Cana, for a weeklong, all-inclusive resort staycation in the Dominican Republic.
“It’s a special place for us, we first met up here,” said Liriano, referring to one of the longest-running resorts in the area.
On arrival, the couple learned the adults-only section was closed, and their reservation had shifted to the family side. “We are reduced to one hotel with almost no restaurants,” Liriano said, noting the low staff morale.