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Travel and Tourism:

1. Compare the views of tourism expressed in text 2 with those of texts 1 and 3:

Text 2 is an article written by Sarah Hall, who describes the concerns of today’s backpackers:
“But, in reality, today’s backpackers are more concerned with smoking dope, sleeping around and congregating in well-established travellers’ ghettos, according to new research.”
She describes today’s backpackers’ way to travel in a negative way. She mentions that the real backpackers wanted to travel to find new cultures and meet locale people was the idea of backpacking before the cliché tourist “bubble” got the power. Nothing is an experience anymore, today’s backpackers look in a tourist-guide and eats diet pizza.
Text 1 is written by Don George and it gives a very positive expression of tourism. He starts out by describing his first vacation, and he tries to get us, the reader to think of the first time we have travelled, and how everything in a different country was incredibly new and exciting.
He goes on by describing about his first trip to Paris, when he stepped out into the street and everything spoke French, behaved French and everything was French. He tells about, how he spent most of his life in a classroom and when he got back, he would spend more time in a classroom. But it came to him, that she streets of France was the classroom, he was learning about a new culture, but in a positive way, by looking around and experience, and not by sitting in a musty, shadowed, oak-paneled, ivy-draped building.
Text 3 is a bit strange, because this man, Mark Moxon, tells about, why he is travelling, and the text starts out with that Mark describes a time when he was visiting a friend, and he’s bathroom was all peach, she toilet, the bath, the towels and so on, had the color as a peach. Then it hit him that he wanted to escape peach colored bathrooms, he had never travelled, he had never experienced anything, and then he did something radical. He quit he’s job, bought a one-way ticket to Sidney, and took a journey for 33 months.
The reason for this was that didn’t want to end up like his friend with a peach colored bathroom, he didn’t want to be that guy, who did the same thing every week.
The three texts are very different from each other. Text 2 is very negative from start to end, text 1 is positive from start to end, and the third text I first started to think, that this guy had a negative view at travelling, but it ends up with, that he’s thankful for had experienced the world.

2. Discuss who benefits from backpacker tourism:
When people decide to travel as backpackers, it is often due to wish for personal development. They see it as a spiritual trip, a non-religious pilgrimage taken to broaden their minds so they see the world in a greater perspective instead of just being able to relate to fellow people in the Western civilization. It gives you experience and knowledge that can help you in the future, both when it comes to social relations, career opportunities etc.

Backpacking can also be beneficial to the entire Western civilization if it results in knowledge of how to have a symbiotic relationship with nature to the good of both mankind and the planet. If you believe the huge majority of scientists and environmental experts are right when stating that we are close to ruining the climate of the planet thereby eradicate life on this planet by the way we are living at present then. When Villages in the rain forest or the jungle are to live in harmony with and off nature, we could save lives of hundreds of millions if we just looked at how they do so.

Despite the wish to experience new cultures and customs, and although the life of a backpacker is usually portrayed as simple and without luxury, it has become normal to spend parts of the trip in what is called “tourist ghettoes” which are large neighborhoods or even entire cities dominated by tourists and Western shops and completely sucked dry of the foreign traditions and ways of life they came to explore. Although this has been hurtful to the native population of most popular destinations for tourists, it has made a lot easier for travelling agencies to attract customers. The destruction of many non-Western areas has thereby led to financial success for companies in the West.
 

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