Award winning writer and journalist, and author of the eye opening and thought provoking book Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, Elizabeth Becker describes both the global importance of the travel and tourism business, but also the challenges and problems created by that industry. Elizabeth Becker points out how travel and tourism is possibly the largest, yet most ignored industry in the world. Elizabeth Becker provides information on how the industry is still not even considered a business by many, resulting in it not being taken seriously by governments, writers, and travelers themselves. Elizabeth points out the three major areas of tourism, in the form of cultural, consumer, and nature destinations. She also discusses the new gigantic tourist market in China, as well as the old tourist giant USA. In an industry where the challenges include environmental and building deterioration, worker exploitation, and government failures, this is an industry that needs a closer examination. Elizabeth Becker pulls back the curtain on the enormous global travel and tourism industry.
Elizabeth Becker is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, June 27, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Award winning writer and journalist, and author of the eye opening and thought provoking book Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, Elizabeth Becker describes both the global importance of the travel and tourism business, but also the challenges and problems created by that industry. You will learn:
* How travel and tourism may be the largest industry in the world
* Why the industry faces severe challenges and problems going forward
* How cultural, consumer, and nature tourism are helping and destroying countries
* Why tourism has been largely ignored as an industry despite its huge impact
Elizabeth Becker (photo left), is an award-winning author and journalist, who has covered national and international affairs as a Washington correspondent at The New York Times, the Senior Foreign Editor at National Public Radio and a Washington Post correspondent. She began her career as a war reporter in Cambodia in 1972 and is an expert on the Khmer Rouge and modern Cambodia. She was the 2008 Edelman fellow at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.
At The New York Times from 1995 to 2005, Ms. Becker covered the Pentagon, homeland security, international economics, and agriculture. Her farm coverage won five awards from the North American Agricultural Journalists Association. As the Times International Economics correspondent, she reported on trade and globalization from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Prior to joining the Times, she was the Senior Foreign Editor at NPR where she directed all foreign coverage and expanded coverage in Asia and Africa.
She received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for reporting of South Africa’s first democratic elections and the Rwanda genocide. Ms. Becker covered the war in Cambodia for The Washington Post and was one of only two journalists to visit Cambodia and interview Pol Pot while he was in power. She won an Overseas Press Club citation for that coverage in 1978.
As a freelance journalist based in Paris (1986 to 1990), she covered the peace negotiations that culminated in the Paris Peace Accords of 1992. Ms. Becker is the author of “WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER” (1986), a history of modern Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge for which she won a Robert F. Kennedy Book citation. The book was updated in 1998 and has been translated into French and Khmer.
She is also the author of “AMERICA’S VIETNAM WAR” (1992), a narrative history for young adults. Her essays and opinion pieces appear frequently in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and she has contributed to Asian, European and American magazines and journals. Additionally, she has lectured at numerous universities and colleges and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
She holds a degree in South Asian studies from the University of Washington and also studied at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthaan in Agra, India. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the boards of directors of Oxfam America and the Arthur Burns Foundation.
My book review of Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism by Elizabeth Becker.
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Let's talk with award winning writer and journalist, and author of the eye opening and thought provoking book Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, Elizabeth Becker, as she describes both the global importance of the travel and tourism business, but also the challenges and problems created by that industry. Elizabeth Becker points out how travel and tourism is possibly the largest, yet most ignored industry in the world. Elizabeth Becker provides information on how the industry is still not even considered a business by many, resulting in it not being taken seriously by governments, writers, and travelers themselves. Elizabeth points out the three major areas of tourism, in the form of cultural, consumer, and nature destinations. She also discusses the new gigantic tourist market in China, as well as the old tourist giant USA. In an industry where the challenges include environmental and building deterioration, worker exploitation, and government failures, this is an industry that needs a closer examination. Elizabeth Becker pulls back the curtain on the enormous global travel and tourism industry on Blog Business Success Radio.
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