Package holidays and 'authentic' travel
Package holidays and 鈥榓uthentic鈥� travel: Laurie Taylor uncovers the origins of budget tourism and asks why certain travellers position their experience as more worthy than others.
Package holidays and 鈥榓uthentic鈥� travel: Michael John Law, retired research fellow in History at the University of Westminster, investigates the origin of budget tourism and how the package deal opened up a previously unaffordable world to working class holidaymakers. Also, Kaylan Schwarz, assistant professor in the School of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, explores the experience of international volunteers who insist on experiencing 鈥榓uthenticity鈥� and claim superiority to every day tourists.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Guests and Further Reading
A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom 1950-1974 (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press)
'Volunteer tourism, dis-identification, and the construction of 鈥渁uthentic鈥� travel experience' in聽 (Routledge)
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