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The Final Call
Investigating who really pays for our holidays

No industry in the world employs more people than tourism - it employs one in every eleven workers on the planet, and it is the world's largest foreign currency earner. Long billed also as the cleanest industry for developing countries to invest in, tourism seems to offer everyone involved a positive experience.

This is the official line, anyway. In truth, the reality is much more complex. The unsettling truth is that behind the sunny façade of swimming pools, smiling locals, stunning sights and exquisite cuisine, there is all too often an ugly, damaging reality and it is spreading unchecked to all corners of the globe.

For The Final Call, journalist and consumer expert at the Guardian Leo Hickman travels the world on a range of holidays to find out what this industry is really like. Clubbing in Ibiza, cruising the Caribbean, luxuriating in Dubai, skiing in the Alps and backpacking in Thailand, (amongst other destinations), we hear from everyone - the holidaymaker, the hotel manager, the waitress, the disillusioned travel agent, the exploited prostitute and the angry local politician - to discover what they don't tell you in the glossy brochures.

But none of us are going to stop holidaying and at the core of this book is a heartfelt attempt to discover the best way to holiday wherever you are. After listening to the evidence from all those concerned with our holidays, Hickman offers solutions - for the industry itself, the destinations concerned, and for the holiday-maker keen to make the best impact when on holiday.

An investigative and entertaining travelogue that prompts us all to ask ourselves some hard questions: Who really pays for our trips? And is it possible to have a truly 'good' holiday?

150 x 230 mm, 400 pages, paperback.

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