THE NEW TOURIST Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

Paige McClanahan has an appealing voice and narrates persuasively at a good pace. She gives this audiobook a sense of her lived experience as a travel writer, reporter, and thoughtful interpreter of the world of travel. While she resides in France, she is a longtime contributor to the NEW YORK TIMES; her insights on tourism are based on thousands of hours of interviews. She writes more about the how and why of travel than about the where. And her writing is leavened with close observations of the pleasures and pitfalls of tourism. The listener goes along on forays to Iceland and Hawaii, as well as to overly visited Amsterdam and Barcelona, where travel is meaningful to the economies but not always to the locals. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2024]