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The travel crisis caused by COVID-19 is also an opportunity to end the worst excesses of international tourism for good.
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Understanding the different types of visitors and how they navigate museums can help these institutions reopen safely.
With tourism revenue drying up due to COVID-19, the debate surrounding trophy hunting of wildlife species like African lions is more relevant now than before.
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A new study evaluates what South African landowners who run trophy hunting operations would do in the event of a hunting ban.
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Dark tourism can help shine a commemorative light on the pandemic that has gripped society.
The view from the dungeon of the Cape Coast Castle.
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It is a good time to ask how the travel and tourism industry has contributed to racism and how that can change.
The end of the road?
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Tourist businesses are having to shift from focusing on international visitors to domestic ones.
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Tourists and homeless people share many common spaces, but homeless people are seen as being out of place.
On Bijilo Beach in the Gambia, there are no fruit sellers in sight.
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Developing countries that depend heavily on tourists need international support, and more sustainable offerings for the future.
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Many Australians would like to engage with Indigenous people and history but say they don’t know how. Taking an Indigenous tour is one way to do this and take responsibility for reconciliation.
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Pressure is growing to include struggling Pacific nations in an Australia-New Zealand travel bubble, but economic diversity is what the region really needs.
U.S. Customs officers stand beside a sign at the US/Canada border in Lansdowne, Ontario, on March 22, 2020.
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The US and Canada have had a long, supportive relationship. But the recent closure of the US-Canada border because of the coronavirus underscores a growing divide between the two countries.
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Trials show a four-day week really works. With economies desperate for recovery, now could be the perfect time to encourage it.
The view from the porch of a cabin in Yoho National Park in British Columbia.
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Conflicts between seasonal property owners and year-round rural residents are highlighting the fault-lines between the “right to be rural” and “disaster gentrification.”
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We will trade, but take more account of our interests than before, and we will trust government more.
Animals in national parks are sometimes harassed by tourists.
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With national parks closed in many parts of North America, now is the time to rethink how we protect natural areas.
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Australia and New Zealand are talking about quarantine-free travel between their two countries. What would it mean and how would it work?
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The international tourism crisis offers New Zealand the opportunity to reimagine domestic tourism - if operators and consumers can adapt.
Port Louis in Mauritius.
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Mauritius relies on a strategy of being open to imports and exports.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel at the latest leaders’ summit.
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Another EU leaders’ meeting, another humdrum announcement afterwards.
Africa needs to promote domestic tourism.
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African countries should draw from past experience to put together plans to manage the post-COVID-19 tourism void