Tim Baster & Isabelle Merminod offer a satirical round-up of the insalubrious accommodation awaiting travellers from the Global South.
Are you the kind of person who is fleeing injustice and human rights abuses?
New Internationalist has compiled the most-up-to-date info on where you might be staying – in some cases indefinitely. It’s all here, from the near rock-bottom, basic ‘minus one star’ to the absolutely fatal ‘minus five star’.
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