A Second Look at My Trip to the Philippines

Catherine Charles’ reflective piece written in the form of a diary about a trip to the Philippines. It touches on concepts such as the tourist gaze and how the globalisation and the global tourist industry affects developing countries. It examines how social media and photography are factors in encouraging people to travel. It also talks of the hypocrisy of traveling to beautiful environments without a thought about how the travel itself affects the environment and the traveller is therefore complicit in its demise.