... vs. an invasion of western cultural imperialism. I will then look at more contemporary issues such as planes contributing to global warming through unregulated international treaties with no caps on carbon emissions and the pandemic of sex tourism in countries such as Vietnam and Costa Rica. Using a mixture of my own experiences in an increasingly culturally diluted Spain, and articles concerning "leakage" of foreign direct investment in Thailand I hope to build up a picture of the implications of the global expansion of tourism. The travel and tourism economy will account for 11.7% of world GDP in 2007 and spending by international visitors will amount to 8% of world exports in 2007 with further impact by the export of travel and tourism related goods according to the WTO. With these trillions of pounds being exported from country to country Dr Bearner of "TNC's and Thailand" suggests that as little as ...

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