The Case Against Travel! Is Being A Tourist Bad? Should People Stop Traveling? Does Traveling Change A Person or the Place More?

<p>The Best Paragraph I&#39;ve Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>A tourist is a temporarily leisured person who voluntarily visits a place away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change. This definition is taken from the opening of &quot;Hosts and Guests,&quot; the classic academic volume on the anthropology of tourism. The last phrase is crucial: touristic travel exists for the sake of change. But what, exactly, gets changed? Here is a telling observation from the concluding chapter of the same book: &quot;Tourists are less likely to borrow from their hosts than their hosts are from them, thus precipitating a chain of change in the host community.&quot; We go to experience a change, but end up inflicting change on others.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>This paragraph comes from an essay in the New Yorker, titled: &quot;The Case Against Travel.&quot; The essay is written by Agnes Callard. You can read the full essay here:</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Zac and Don reflect upon the arguments made against travel. They also reflect upon their recent summer travels and how that fits within the case against travel.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestparagraph/message