Main content

Package holidays and 'authentic' travel

Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Laurie Taylor uncovers the origins of budget tourism and asks why certain travellers position their experience as more worthy than others.

Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Michael John Law, retired research fellow in History at the University of Westminster, investigates the origin of budget tourism and how the package deal opened up a previously unaffordable world to working class holidaymakers. Also, Kaylan Schwarz, assistant professor in the School of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, explores the experience of international volunteers who insist on experiencing ‘authenticity’ and claim superiority to every day tourists.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

Available now

28 minutes

Last on

Mon 20 Jun 2022 00:15

Guests and Further Reading

A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom 1950-1974 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)


'Volunteer tourism, dis-identification, and the construction of “authentic” travel experience' in  (Routledge)


Broadcasts

  • Wed 15 Jun 2022 16:00
  • Mon 20 Jun 2022 00:15

Explore further with The Open University

鶹 Thinking Allowed is produced in partnership with The Open University

Download this programme

Subscribe to this programme or download individual episodes.

Podcast