The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

Published: Aug. 7, 2024, 7 a.m.

Summer is a time when many Americans are taking off from work and setting their sights on far-off vacation destinations: tropical beaches, fairy-tale cities, sun-drenched countrysides. But in her book Airplane Mode, the reluctant travel writer Shahnaz Habib warns of recklessly embracing what she calls "passport privilege," \u2014 and how that can skew peoples' images of what the world is and who it belongs to.

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