Travel teaches us to be better hosts

"What we learn of the world is never simply a result of how often or how far we travel. It is just as intimately related to how sincerely we receive strangers amongst us."
--Erve Chambers, "Can the Anthropology of Tourism Make us Better Travelers?", NAPA Bulletin 23 (2005)



2 Responses to “Travel teaches us to be better hosts”

  1. Phil Harvey Says:
    2005-12-30 22:43

    I just found your site today by linking from "The Art of Writing a Story about Walking Across Andora," posted on WorldHum.com, which I just discovered today by noticing the URL in "The Best American travel Writing: 2004," which I just bought today because I'm trying to go to Ghana for at least four months with the intention of making that the start of at least a year spent abroad in which I hope to write and be published.

    I'm excited about both sites and your book (which I plan on purchasing soon). And I'm inspired by the larger-than-I-expected network of resort-averse travelers that I am slowly uncovering simply by looking.

    I've been referring to to the vauge notion of what I want to do as "globe-trotting," and "not-tourism." I'm begining to think, however, that I might be a vagabond.

    Here's to starting by recieving the strangers amongst us. Cheers.

  2. Rolf Says:
    2006-01-02 17:43

    Cheers, Phil!