Why Most Travelers Shouldn’t Follow the Eat Pray Love Travel Model

Eat Pray Love -- Hotels Bookie Verdict

Travel books are supposed to inspire us. But sometimes they also quietly distort what travel really looks like—especially for ordinary people planning trips with budgets, schedules, responsibilities, and expectations that don’t include disappearing across three continents for a year. Few books illustrate this better than Eat Pray Love. Yes, it’s emotional. Yes, it’s beautifully written. Yes, it changed how millions of people think about travel. But it also created one of the most unrealistic travel expectations of the modern era. Let’s talk about why. The Travel Dream It Sold —…

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A Deadly Tourist Destination now, once land of smiles

A deadly tourist destination

World’s favorite tourist destination is slowly turning into a deadly tourist destination. We are not saying this but Australian author John Stapleton is suggesting that widespread police corruption, violence and crime are all blighting a country once commonly referred to as the ‘Land of Smiles’ In his book Thailand: Deadly Destination, Mr Stapleton attempts to expose the reputation of Thailand as a welcoming country, claiming a boom in tourism since the 1960s has created a hatred of foreigners and a ‘murderous indifference’ to the millions of tourists who flock to…

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