Wednesday, August 7, 2024

The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, <em>Airplane Mode.</em>

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," — and how that can skew peoples' images of what the world is and who it belongs to.

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