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Last Resort Chapter Ten

Flung — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 18:06:10 +0000

The main building of the former Sorake Beach Resort | photo by Scott RosensteinPages 204-205: The former Sorake Beach Resort's open-air restaurant | photo by Sarah Stodola

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Last Resort Chapter Eleven

Flung — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:50:20 +0000

TKPages 247-249: Caleta Beach was the original Acapulco destination, starting in the 1920s.

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Last Resort Chapter Thirteen

Flung — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:17:29 +0000

Pages 285-286: This machine on Malaysia's Tioman island turns tourists' beer bottles into much-needed sand.Page TK: On Tioman Island, efforts to stop construction directly on the beach have produced mixed results.

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Last Resort Chapter Fourteen

Flung — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:00:49 +0000

Pages 305-306: The Grand Brighton Hotel opened in 1864, part of the city's resort heyday.Page 305: The remaining shell of Brighton's 1866 West Pier is today an emblem of the resort's past glories.

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Last Resort Chapter Three

Flung — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:35:20 +0000

Pages 49-50: A groin went in to protect the Royal Hawaiian's beach in the 1920s. Almost immediately, the sand on the other side of it disappeared. Today, there is no beach there. Photo credit Scott Rosenstein.

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Last Resort Chapter Six

Flung — Fri, 20 May 2022 22:49:48 +0000

Page TK: Rolling into the weekend in Tulum.Pages 125-126: "The beach itself isn't necessarily the destination in Ibiza," as I write in The Last Resort.Page TK: A beach in the famed resort town of San Antonio, on Ibiza.Page TK: The beaches of Ibiza that don't make it onto Instagram.Page TK: Tourists claim any plot of sand they can find in Cancun.Page 132: Cancun's shoreline is held in place largely by seawalls and other structures, while the sand continues to erode.Pages […]

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Last Resort Chapter Nine

Flung — Thu, 05 May 2022 16:54:19 +0000

Page 176: As the main house at the Cobblers Cove resort helps illustrate, "going to Barbados can be as much a voyage into a lost ideation of Englishness as it is a trip to the Caribbean."Page 177: Cobblers Cove is a quintessential part of the beach tourism industry that has come to dominate life for Barbados' 280,000 people.Page 177: A road near Speightstown, in Barbados, became a victim of the overbuilt shoreline and climate change.Page 184: Barbados' Sandy Lane Hotel […]

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Last Resort Chapter Five

Flung — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:43:51 +0000

Pages 86-97: Maison d'Hotes Niokobokk, a tiny resort on a wildly empty stretch of Senegal's 330 miles of coastline.Pages 97 and 100-102: A Senegalese fishing boat in action.Pages 99-100: At the time of my visit, Le Lamantin resort along the Saly coast in Senegal was the only one in the area to maintain five-star standards.Pages 100-102: A typical fishing boat along the coast near Saly, in Senegal. A major beach restoration project has supported tourism, but also made life easier […]

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Last Resort Chapter Seven

Flung — Tue, 03 May 2022 15:57:33 +0000

Pages 142-143: Cua Dai Beach near Hoi An, Vietnam. It was the first beach in the area to be developed for tourism, but has not fared well since.Pages 138-140: Looking north along the coast in Da Nang, Vietnam.Pages 143-144: At the Four Seasons along the Central Vietnamese coast, guests prefer the pool to the beach it overlooks.

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Last Resort Chapter Two

Flung — Tue, 03 May 2022 15:57:29 +0000

Page 40-42: On La Garoupe Beach in Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera, the beach became a place for frivolity in Europe for the first time, thanks to a rowdy group that included F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

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