Backpacker, go home: How tourism is ruining everything

backpackingTouristic overdevelopment  is the subject of Gringo Trails, out on DVD and VOD on Nov. 17. Although director Pegi Vail’s documentary concentrates on backpacker culture and how it has hurt pristine sites around the world, the stories it tells can also be applied to spots that have already fallen to the tourist industrial complex. Spanning from Bolivia and Mali to Bhutan, Vail shows how unplanned development can turn formerly exotic spots into developing-world dumps

Source: Backpacker, Go Home: How Tourism Is Ruining Everything – The Daily Beast

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