Steve Burgess takes readers around the world as he ponders our right to roam. In this smart and sharply funny exploration of tourism Steve Burgess poses the questions that all travelers should pause to consider why do we travel and should we In his quest for answers he reviews studies and interviews experts from many facets of the tourism industry all the while sharing observations from some of his most personally significant travels from Rome to Kathmandu.So is satisfying our own wanderlust worth the trouble it causes Is the tourist guilty of the chargesfrom voyeurism to desecrationlevelled against them by everyone from environmentalists to exhausted locals to superiorfeeling fellow tourists who have traded in the tour bus for ampampquotauthentic experiencesampampquot While posing these ethical questions Burgess recounts his own travel blunders and epiphanies. Readers will examine ecotourism in Antarctica cultural voyeurism in Tana Toraja the tourist versus the traveler in Palermo.