While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful
travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad
travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their
travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding
travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their
travels with
industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.
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