The Last Tourist

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.

The documentary swings from one problem to another, many of these problems aren't actually tourism problems.

There's a documentary in here, and a really good story to tell, if they could have concentrated on this, the main focus being the cruelty towards animals and the overarching theme that you vote with your currency.

Unfortunately we lurch from "too much tourism" to "not enough tourism", and from the animals and then to the children, and then back again but with little narrative to connect this all together.

Conclusion: a good docukentarty could be in here, its well shot from a cinematography point of view but because of the narratove I'd give this a pass.

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.

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.

There is some truly eye opening stuff in here about mass tourism destroying local communities, biodiversity and a lack of trickle down economics when it comes to rich people coming to poor areas. But all of this is laid moot by focus on things that have nothing to do with tourism; people in South America talking about weaving? Nope, not needed. It is detours like these that destroy the momentum of the film and there are moments where a perfect cresendo of visual montages coupled with destructive effects of mass tourism is absolutely demolished by these illogical detours. Also, the doc could have been shorter by 10-15 minutes as well. Overall, a good effort but needs another go in the editing room to make it more effective.