Koalas have long featured in tourism ads, including this new one from Tourism Australia. Amid our bushfire crisis, this digital ad has been ‘paused’.
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Koalas take a starring role in Australian tourism advertising – but what happens when our primary image of this animal is one of pain and destruction?
The ruins of Nepal’s Gorkha district after the 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9,000 people and injured 22,000. Tourism helped lead the way back.
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It isn’t always good advice for tourists to stay away. Often their money can help, as well as their skills.
If you didn’t post it, did it even happen?
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Where once we subjected friends to post-holiday slideshows, now we share travel selfies live with a remote audience. This study teased out the tension between snapping and experiencing the trip.
Manger Square with Bethlehem Peace Centre and Christmas tree, December 2019.
Dorina Buda
‘Solidarity tourism’ has made Christmas a very busy time of year in Palestine.
The Royal New Zealand Navy during a recovery operation on Whakaari/White Island, on December 13. Rescue and recovery efforts have been hampered by hazardous conditions on the island, and the danger of another eruption.
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The tragedy at Whakaari/White Island highlights the need for consent forms to ensure tourists are fully informed when choosing to visit dangerous locations.
You don’t have to climb a mountain to feel fulfilled.
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Many businesses are capitalising on the rise in experience-seeking with new and expensive ways to make memories – and many of them are just as damaging for the planet as products.
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Performances of prison life are commonplace nowadays in gulag museums. Visitors can vividly imagine it all – the tears, pain and despair.
A stairwell in the Bronx is the site of one of the movie’s most memorable scenes.
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Like the ‘Rocky Steps,’ the ‘Joker Stairs’ have become a mecca for moviegoers. But not all film-related tourism is the same.
The Anangu community of Mutitjulu stands in stark contrast to the sleek tourism infrastructure in the neighbouring town of Yulara.
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There’s a need to develop new tourism activities at Uluru, especially more educational and immersive experiences that would entail interacting respectfully with traditional owners.
What … no bluebirds?
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London is a tourist magnet, but the rest of the UK desperately needs investment and promotion. Brexit is not helping.
Capital, family roles and stereotypes hinder women in business.
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The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women’s participation in tourism.
What can your vacation pix tell scientists?
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To untangle the relationship between climate change, fall foliage and national park visitors, researchers are asking tourists to check their old photo albums for snapshots that could hold valuable data.
Diani Beach, Kenya.
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Government leadership is needed to manage the aquifer as a system for all, including environmental services, rather than for the powerful few.
Now part of history.
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Thomas Cook may be history – but that history is about to be lost.
Cubans record a street musician’s performance at an internet hotspot along the seafront in Havana, July 14, 2018.
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Some Cuban entrepreneurs are so openly anti-communist that they sound like, well, capitalists.
Grounded.
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With 150,000 tourists stranded, this is the largest peacetime repatriation the UK has ever undertaken.
Lahaina, Hawaii, was a wasteland of burned-out homes and obliterated communities after wildfires ripped through the town.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Hotels are helping the Hawaiian island of Maui recover from the catastrophic impact of wildfires, just as they have in Florida following hurricanes.
A proposed new train in Mexico would connect the archaeological site of Chichen Itza, on the Yucatan Peninsula, easier to reach from Cancun.
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An ambitious new train would link resorts like Cancun to inland ancient ruins and colonial towns. That means laying rail across 932 miles of dense jungle, pristine beach and indigenous villages.
The door of no return at the Cape Coast Castle.
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Ghana is banking on a much needed boost to its tourism sector from its call to Africans in the diaspora.
ChopinSandDelacroix.
Eugène Delacroix
180 years before Love Island, Chopin and Sands travelled to Mallorca to pursue their romance.