Are We There Yet? · Section 13

Call of Duty-Free

The industry that grew up around the traveler. It begins with the oldest service there is — a bed for a stranger — then the invention of the tourist: the Grand Tour aristocrat, Thomas Cook's first package holiday, everyone at once in the same Venice square. Whether the Golden Age of Travel existed, what tourism sells now, and the ports where cargo deliberately never arrives.

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