Book Review – Overbooked:The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

For those interested in the tourism and golf tourism trades you will want to read the excellent book by Elizabeth Becker entitled, Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism click here. Find out why France invented the travel business, how large cruise ships affect city ports negatively, what the impact is of China’s new explosion of outbound tourism and how other countries are faring in this $6.5 trillion worldwide industry. Amazing to know the enormous size of tourism and yet governments often forget to mention it as an important economic driver. Canada is one country with its lower dollar that should seize this great opportunity to increase visitors for sightseeing, wilderness hikes, city visits, golf and more.