BOOKED, a new documentary, takes an urgently-needed look at tourism, the world’s biggest service-sector industry which is currently reeling from the twin threats of a global pandemic and climate change.  Filmed in popular tourist destinations from Hawaii to Key West, the film follows community leaders, environmentalists and tourism workers who are resisting a return to “business as usual” and offering new ways to travel. It also stops in Costa Rica, the tiny country that pioneered equitable, sustainable tourism and made it national policy.  BOOKED argues that our common future depends, to a significant degree, on rethinking tourism.

Directed by Sarah Mondale
Produced by Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale

"People are starting to realize that the travel and tourism industry is at the center of a lot of the problems that have created climate change. "

"We now have an opportunity - and when I say we, I mean humanity in general -  to think about ways to do tourism better."

"Tourism, we think about it as something frivolous, something fun.  But really, it's at the core of the most important aspects of our society."

"We all want to be tourists. We love to travel. We need the revenue of tourism and yet that comes with a cost."

" I actually think tourism is the epitome of the new American Dream. It’s really the embodiment of American consumer culture. "

ON THE  SET OF "BOOKED"

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