• Selected by National Geographic as a “Best Book to Inspire Your Next Trip”

  • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

  • A Smithsonian pick as one of the Year’s “Ten Best Books on Travel”

  • Author selected by Outside as a “2024 Outsider of the Year”

2024’s best book on travel.” —Outside Magazine

“Conversation stirring…Deeply researched, with dispatches from Barcelona to Iceland…digs into the negative and positive impacts of tourism with nuance and care.” —National Geographic

“[A] fun and breezy way of looking at different aspects of modern travel.” —Alex Schwartz, The New Yorker’s “Critics at Large”

“[A] nuanced approach to tourism is baked into the premise of The New Tourist… yet McClanahan remains unwavering in her belief that tourism can be a net good.” —Condé Nast Traveler

Praise for The New Tourist