Tourismus Dritte Welt- Brennpunkt Südostasien

Coca-colonization. Social corrosion. Bastardization of society. Critique of tourism has become modern – and justified. Travel to the Third World has long been a fixed part of Western leisure society, as established as it is controversial, a key economic factor and a site of sociocultural friction. Alternative tourism as an alternative? The study sheds light on the nature of this idealized form of travel in Southeast Asia, the cradle of backpacker tourism in the 1970s and a booming region today. Six months of field research on the trails of the traveler scene destroy the illusion of 'better' travel: The alternative tourism of the 1990s has now become a mass tourism phenomenon and the spearhead of package tourism.