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Podcast: Deviate with Rolf Potts
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Backpacker, Go Home: How Tourism Is Ruining Everything (or Not)
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:41
Publish Date: 2019-07-16 00:01:00
Description:

“What changed in my travels was my own realization of what our impact is as travelers.” – Pegi Vail

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Pegi Vail discuss how art changes the way places are visited (3:00); backpacker culture and what can go wrong with it (14:00); the impact of travel on local people and promotion of responsible tourism (25:00); and how to protect local culture (38:00).

Pegi Vail is an anthropologist and filmmaker who directed the documentary Gringo Trails.  She is also a sustainable-travel consultant whose academic work has focused on visual anthropology, Indigenous media, and the role of storytelling to the political economy of tourism in the developing world. She is the Co-Director of New York University’s Center for Media, Culture, and History. Vail is a founding member, curator, and featured storyteller of the popular not-for-profit storytelling collective, The Moth.

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