Gringo Trails (2013)

Directed by

Pegi Vail

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at how mass tourism changes communities in Thailand, Bolivia, Mali, and Bhutan. It shows both the good and bad effects on local people and their cultures.

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What happens

Gringo Trails is a 2013 feature-length documentary film directed by anthropologist Pegi Vail of New York University. The film follows the positive and negative impacts of travel and tourism on numerous communities across the globe, including Thailand, Bolivia, Mali (Timbuktu) and Bhutan, documenting how communities thrive, adapt, or deteriorate in the face of mass tourism, "one of the most powerful globalizing forces of our time." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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