Package holidays and 'authentic' travel
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Michael John Law, retired research fellow in History at the University of Westminster, investigates the origin of budget tourism and how the package deal opened up a previously unaffordable world to working class holidaymakers. Also, Kaylan Schwarz, assistant professor in the School of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, explores the experience of international volunteers who insist on experiencing ‘authenticity’ and claim superiority to every day tourists.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:47.9 | Hello back in 1963 when Cliff Richard decided it was time for a summer holiday, he had no doubts about his desired destination. |
| 0:58.0 | We're going where the sun shines brightly. |
| 1:01.0 | We're going where the sea is blue. Well in truth, in truth, Cliff was a little late in the day extolling the |
| 1:09.2 | delights of bright sunshine and blue seas. |
| 1:12.8 | Whereas at the start of the 1950s only one in 16 British holidaymakers went abroad, |
| 1:18.3 | this rose slowly to one in ten by the end of the decade. |
| 1:22.4 | Not that every family participated in this mass |
| 1:25.2 | exodus to Spain and Italy. My family chose to regard itself as middle class and |
| 1:30.5 | this meant that our long distance travel from Liverpool stretch no further than the boat ride |
| 1:35.3 | to seaside resorts in the Isle of Man or a 15 hour trip in an increasingly quarrelsome car to Torquie. At least, you know I can still hear my |
| 1:46.0 | mother celebrating the fact we were not going on one of those dreadful over |
| 1:50.5 | indulgent drunken sunburned package holidays. But my residual curiosity |
| 1:56.7 | about those package foreign holidays that I was never allowed to sample have now been |
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