The real deal — Yearning for 'authentic' travel leads to trend of geotourism

Francisco Orosco harvests coffee beans in the mountains of San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, 90 miles northeast of Guatemala City. A trip to a Guatemalan coffee farm would make for a different summer vacation, but could also could be considered ‘geotourism,’ a relatively new term for travel that focuses on a destination’s unique culture and history and aims to have visitors help enrich those qualities — rather than turn the place into a tourist trap. <br><small><B>Associated Press </B></small> <br> <hr width="250">