Airplane Mode

I thought this basically an interesting collection of anecdotes with great quotations from other works, but a weak overarching theme. I went into the book thinking that tourism has an inherent tension between problematic exploitation and earnest exploration and sharing of aspects of the human condition, and that is about how I felt after finishing it. Maybe I wanted something prescriptive, maybe I wanted some lesson to be learned from that, but I think mainly I wanted some stronger thesis to be argued for and analyzed. Instead the anecdotes, quotes, and bits of life story are weakly tied together and presented all in a bit of a directionless jumble.