Gringo Trails: Are Tourists Destroying the Planet? - Pegi Vail & Melvin Estrella

Of the many reasons that people travel to faraway lands, there are two groups that seem at odds with each other: the people who wish to leave the familiar behind and seek new experiences in cultures strange to them, while the other group wishes to have a change of scenery, but still enjoy the comforts (and vices) of home. In their new film, Gringo Trails, Pegi Vail and Melvin Estrella examines the pieces of paradise that have become havens for travelers and the fates that befall these remote locations: some are able to harness the dollars of tourists for good, while others become dens of debauchery and have their natural capital strewn with straws and other trash that party-goers leave behind.