New book exposes travel industry's seedy underbelly

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Having written my share of tourism sites, trip reports and travel brochures, I have to agree with him. The problem is that the writers (and agents) are usually at the resorts, etc. on free tickets. Who's going to bite that hand that feeds them?

So what do you believe? The internet 'reviews" from those who've traveled there? Hardly. People usually never write positive things about places they've been to on forums, just gripes. Their experience level and expectations vary widely.

Travel consumers are left to read a lot of these articles, talk to agents, sort out the biases and make their own decisions by reading between the lines, I'm afraid.

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