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Auntie knows best?

17 Jan 2012

The BBC (a.k.a. Auntie) "Fast Track" programme takes a look at tourism today, doesn't like it, blames this on Baedeker, and tells us what to do instead.

Well OK, it may just be the writer of this article, Roman Krznaric, who is a "cultural theorist"; and perhaps it is just me getting my hackles up when Baedekers are described as "notorious", but I do think this is a wonderfully egregious example of the cultural theory-élite telling us plebs how we should be enjoying our holidays...

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