The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays

by Orely Minelli, Polly Pattullo, Amica Dall, et al.

Book Overview

Do you want a holiday that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a holiday that is enriching for you - and for the locals at your destination? If you do, and believe that your trip should give local communities a fair deal (so often denied them) as well as being fun, then this book is for you. This fully revised second edition of The Ethical Travel Guide is the essential resource for responsible global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844077594
• ISBN13: 9781844077595
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition

How does one keep one's soul while seeing the world? Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, "The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting and Alternative Holidays" is a guide to bringing ethics into one's vacation planning and picking destinations that will not only benefit the traveler with experience, but enrich the local community and economies. So many destinations support some form of exploitation on some level, but Earthscan seeks to help travelers find guilt free destinations of many sorts, be it from hiking to romantic getaways. "The Ethical Travel Guide" is a top pick for those who want to travel but don't want to be part of the problem.

A host of alternative opportunities

THE ETHICAL TRAVEL GUIDE: YOUR PASSPORT TO EXCITING ALTERNATIVE HOLIDAYS is for any sick of tourist traps and guilt trips - or who want to use their tourism dollars to have a positive impact on local people. From construction projects in Tibet to ecolodge accommodations, THE ETHICAL TRAVEL GUIDE offers a host of alternative opportunities. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch