Residents of tourism hotspots are fighting back.
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Spare a thought for the locals.
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Croatia lost to France but has won unprecedented public exposure.
Spain attracts more than 75 million tourists per year – far too many for most residents.
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Overtourism is driving a backlash among residents of many European cities, and concerns are rising in Australia, too.
Tourists take a photo of sunrise at Angkor Wat in 2016.
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An influx of tourists is irrevocably changing UNESCO-listed towns in Asia. Controls on visitor numbers are urgently needed.
As Mark Twain once said, ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.’
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Globalism has made it easier than ever to visit faraway places – and easier to never really leave home while you’re there.
RyanAir like most airlines ise price discrimination techniques to attract customers. Find out how.
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Price discrimination is a strategy companies use to charge different prices to consumers for the same or similar product or service. How does it work?
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Piers face an uncertain future, with fire, maintenance issues, rising costs, and climate change all conspiring against them.
Travel is up around the world – but not to the US.
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In 2016, the number of international tourists to the US dropped by more than 2 percent, while tourism trended upward worldwide. There are several explanations for the dip.
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South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.
The Berry Fire burns in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, August 27, 2016.
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With elevated wildfire risks forecast across much of the western US this summer, here’s how travelers can track local conditions, stay out of harm’s way and avoid accidentally starting fires.
Travel is getting cheaper, but more carbon-intensive.
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For the first time research has quantified the global carbon footprint of tourists. It’s big – and getting bigger.
Picture perfect – for tourists, at least.
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Poorer young people in Varanasi have big ambitions, but no way to reach them – despite the government’s efforts.
The queen opens Expo 88, a hastily conceived event that has had a lasting impact on Brisbane.
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Expo 88 helped to create Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands by raising expectations of what the city could be like.
Urban Light by Christ Burden at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Rabbit Town displays a similar installation that allegedly copies Burden’s work.
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Travelling will never be the same with the advances of communication technology. The recently opened theme park Rabbit Town shows this.
Volunteer tourism should be subject to checks and balances, with host communities firmly in the driver’s seat.
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Volunteer tourism is often criticised for focusing on profit and volunteer experience. But improving monitoring and evaluation and putting host communities in charge can make it more sustainable.
Many more people experience World Heritage sites like the Sydney Opera House in digital form than physically visit them.
Many more people experience World Heritage online than in person. While that further elevates the status of iconic sites like the Sydney Opera House, it has other more complicated consequences too.
Within a little more than a decade following the 1978 riot, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival and Parade nourished the emergence of a budding gay and lesbian tourism industry.
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If intelligently managed, festivals attract substantial numbers of LGBT tourists to regional and rural destinations, injecting additional income into the local economies.
Airbnb opens up more tourism in rural Tasmania.
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There’s no evidence Airbnb is worsening housing affordability. Rather it empowers female hosts and promotes small businesses in remote communities.
By preventing Australians from visiting a ‘sacred place’ like the Kokoda Track, it is more likely that local landowners grievances will be met.
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The blockade of the Kokoda Track by local landowners is a product of the complex political and economic issues currently affecting Papua New Guinea.
Paul Hogan, in a new Tourism Australia ad.
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Tourism Australia’s Super Bowl commercial is good strategy, reflecting familiar popular signifiers of Australia. Straying outside of these concepts hasn’t proven successful.