I Travelled the World and Regret It

Travelling is over-rated: here's why!
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References:
‪@KristenLeo‬ THE TOURISM INDUSTRY: Everything you don't want to know
‪@EmpireoftheMind‬ Why you SHOULDN'T Travel
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad, Rumi
The McDonaldization of Society, George Ritzer
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
Goodbye to All That: Escape Stories , Rachael A. Woldoff, Robert C. Litchfield
The History of Indigenous Peoples and Tourism, Cultural Survival
Tourism, Capitalism and Marxist Political Economy, Raoul V. Bianchi
Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit
Wild, Jay Griffiths
On the Road: The Appeal of Buddhism to Travellers, Daniel Veidlinger
Telling Tales: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Travel Narrative, Emily Falconer
Neoliberal Agency, Illana Gershon
A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
‘What’s on your bucket list?’: Tourism, identity and imperative experiential discourse, Thomas Thurnell-Read
PRIVILEGED MOBILITIES. TOURISM AS WORLD ORDERING, Mekonnen Tesfahuney
Stay Home: Travel Is Overrated, Time
The freedom trap: digital nomads and the use of disciplining practices to manage work/leisure boundaries, Dave Cook

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00:00 Introduction
01:30 Find Yourself or Escaping Yourself?
05:15 Does Travel Transforms Us?
09:07 The Experience Economy And Checklist Travel
13:22 Productive Travel
16:48 ''I'm Not Like Other Travellers''
22:22 Conclusion


Is travel over-rated? Is travelling muffling the inner voice that asks the most difficult questions? Finding ourselves, or escaping ourselves? Does travel have transformational power? Is travel commodified? How to return to the magic of travel? How to bring the magic from travelling into our everyday lives? How to decolonise travel? Check-list travel and the discontents of modernity.

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