Unraveling Travel

Philip J. Cunningham examines the precarious nature of mass tourism. Both the cause, rooted in China’s steadily growing middle class and the effect, a surplus of tourists to Thailand. Cunningham measures the limited economic benefit, only grasped by those in a small circle of tourist service positions, against the edifying effect of world travel for the once working class.

Philip Cunningham, visiting research fellow, Cornell University, New York via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/23wHSB3