Tag: Travel Ethics
A Flight Attendant’s Bookish Ethical Dilemma
by Michael Yessis | 06.15.09 | 12:35 PM ET
J.T. from Georgia posed this question to the New York Times ethicist, Randy Cohen:
I am a flight attendant. I was working a flight from Europe when I recognized Michael Connelly, my favorite author, on board. I told him I was reading his novel “Brass Verdict,” and he kindly offered to autograph it. The catch: it is a library book. Must I return the signed book to the library, or can I replace it with a new copy in a suitable jacket?
The answer is entertaining, and not just because of the line about what Cohen would do if he met “the ghost of Jane Austen on the D.C. shuttle.”
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Yahoo! BuzzAbout Those Souvenirs: Made in Hawaii?
by Pam Mandel | 06.08.09 | 10:22 AM ET
I find souvenir shopping tricky. I like things that really scream of place or are packed with a trip’s significance—no pressure, souvenir makers! I was eager to buy a Hawaiian-made uke on my last trip, though the one I ended up getting is more global than I’d have ideally liked—the parts are made in Indonesia and shipped to Oahu for assembly. Is it made in Hawaii? Sort of.
Travel Writing as a Political Act
by Robert Reid | 06.02.09 | 10:39 AM ET
REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco Lonely Planet writer Robert Reid explores the role of travel writers in a complex world
‘The Worst Guidebook Writer Ever’?
by Robert Reid | 04.18.08 | 11:21 AM ET
Lonely Planet author Robert Reid reviews Thomas Kohnstamm's "Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?" and weighs in on the controversy surrounding it
The Distance From Dachau to Darfur
by Peter Delevett | 05.29.07 | 6:22 PM ET
Photo by Peter Delevett Peter Delevett recently visited the Nazi-era concentration camp in Germany. Afterward, he wondered: Why wasn't he doing more to stop the genocide occurring right now in Sudan?
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