“How Caribbean Travel Literature Powers Tourism” explores the evolution of travel writing and its impact on travel and tourism in the Caribbean. Todays’ traveler is looking for meaningful and transformative experiences, and travel literature is the key to discovering real meaning and culture. It explores the psychology of place, people, and culture, exposing uncomfortable truths with valuable insights into people, place, and history.
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Review of Current Travel Literature
The blog How travel literature evolved reviews the writing and thoughts of leading literary masters, such as Paul Theroux. It delves into the classic Caribbean literary artist like Barbados’ George Lamming, Trinidads’ V.S, Naipaul, and St. Lucias’ Derek Walcott. It shows how travel literature is no longer a showcase of the best features of a destination but an essay of the psychology of place, time, people, culture, and history.
The Real Purpose of Travel
Travelers travel to escape, to have fun, and to learn. We learn by understanding differences and appreciating cultures from an intelligent and aware point of view. A view that is inclusive and accepting of other people and customers. It may be fiction and non-fiction, essay, poetry, memoirs, biographical accounts, and first-person narratives that search for the heart and soul of a destination. Travel lit opens up new frontiers with vagabond, footloose and fanciful stories about faraway places, and local communities.
Rogues In Paradise Compared
How Travel Literature Evolved is also a contextual review of the book Rogues in Paradise. It compares and contrasts Rogues to others travel books including Bill Brysons, illustrating the differences in approach and treatment of the characters.
Rogues in Paradise is a masterful example of How Travel Literature Powers Tourism. It paints a compelling story of people, lifestyles, and history with wit and subtle humour. At the same time, it is a provocative narrative of a troubled past with lessons on humanity and inclusion.
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