Dear Edward,
Thanks very much for these sites, they will be useful for alot of us
following the debates and discussions.
Greg Teal
>From: Edward Hasbrouck <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: The Beach
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:14:43 -0800
>
>For those who asked about the environmental controversy over the
>making of the movie "The Beach", and about coverage of "tourism
>anthropology" in relation to the movie, here are some links:
>
>http://www.thaistudents.com/thebeach/phiphi_0200/index.html (meta-
>page with links to statements and reports on both sides)
>
>http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/99/0219/nat4.html (quite a
>thoughtful article about both backpacker culture and the potential impact
>of the movie -- the best single piece I've seen on the issues)
>
>http://guidebookwriters.com/features/beach.html (statement by Joe
>Cummings, which apparently ran in abbreviated form as an op-ed pice in
>the International Herald Tribune)
>
>http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1999/02/cov_09feature.html (long but
>less thoughful series of dispatches on the filming of the movie and the
>attitude of locals and backpackers in the surrounding area)
>
>There's also an entertaining piece, not available online, in the current
>issue of The New Yorker on Khao San Road backpacker culture.
>
>
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>Edward Hasbrouck
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