The Last Tourist

I was in tears through half this documentary. I feel for all the people and animals.

I have an acquaintance, cruises a lot, she wears blinders when in another country unless it is a first world country.

When it comes to the developing countries, her response is "why do I care, I do not live here".

She is probably, like a lot of tourists from the US, why do they not speak American, and conform to my lifestyle.

I am from the Caribbean, I know what happens in they countries.

I plan to share this documentary to all my friends and family. If one person can remove their blinders, you have been successful with this documentary.

Very informative and I really liked how they brought up such important issues like the mistreatment of animals purely for profit from tourism but here and there they got their issues mixed up especially at the end with peoples seemingly random testimonials that had nothing to do with tourism. "I will never use plastic utensils or bags again" what does that have to do with the negative impact of tourism on community's and animals? While sustainability is an important message that's not what this was about and it was very confusing. The testimonials should have been "I won't go somewhere where you can ride elephants and take pictures with tigers" instead it was "I won't use plastic shampoo bottles" like wtf were they thinking with that. Anyway other than getting their issues mixed up it was very good.

Of course, one should not travel mindlessly as is pointed out here. But if you truly care about life on the planet, you will not be flying for fun. This misses the bigger picture and ignores the climate catastrophe. I know, few want to hear the truth.

That this place I exploited, made a map to, and shared with people would become exploited by millions!

Ugh, the complete lack of self-awareness is stunning to say the least, and narcissistic.

It's funny, our family has been saying this since I was a child- to take a vacation, just go somewhere off the beaten path, stay a few days, know the culture AND language, adapt to their ways, clean up after yourself, and be kind. If you don't know the language, you shouldn't be allowed in, if you aren't familiar with their standards/practices, stay out, and if you can't behave as an adult, stay home.

I completely understand, especially after the insane lockdowns, our need to explore, but going where everyone else is, yuck. Maybe start in your own backyard first, get to know your own city/locality, state, country- then visit bordering areas, then volunteer in close areas, then if you still feel the need, immerse yourself in education, and then visit a foreign country. But in order to do so, we need an app that disables all social media, all ability to take pics/videos, and just be still for a while.

If a person takes a trip but doesn't have the pics to prove it, did it ever really happen? We may never know because I doubt it's happened to date.

This has zero to do with climate change, this is common sense- and if you have to create an entire documentary around this devastation to locations, I think we've got a colossal issue that's needs addressed.

Beautiful shot documentary that shines a sobering light on the cost of our love of travelling. An important documentary that should be seen by everyone regardless of how frequent a traveller they are.

A number of memorable characters.