Navigating the Complexities of Coastal Tourism: A Conversation with Elizabeth Becker | Big Tourism

In the special rebroadcast, join Big Tourism’s Host Arica Sears as she catches up with award-winning author Elizabeth Becker at the 2022 Impact Sustainability Conference in Victoria, B.C. Becker began her career as a war correspondent for the Washington Post in Cambodia, became the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio and later a New York Times correspondent covering national security, foreign policy, agriculture and international economics. In 2013, she published ‘Overbooked: the exploding business of travel and tourism. This much-needed critical analysis of the tourism industry describes the industry’s impact to local economies, cultures, and environments. In this interview they cover a variety of tourism topics including the tourism economy, role of government in tourism planning, cruise ships and AirBnb as well as indigenous tourism and geopolitics.