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Analysis - Travel and the Mind

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Travel and the Mind How much do our increasingly exotic foreign holidays really improve our understanding of the world? British tourists now take over 44 million trips abroad each year, yet a glance at the British media reveals that public interest in serious analysis of other cultures seems to be lessening. Richard Weight asks why our interest in foreign news coverage and serious travel reportage seems to be shrinking.