Mass Tourism

For the past two months or so, many of the world's popular tourist destinations have been shuttered to visitors, leaving beaches, restaurants, shops, bars and streets almost empty.Now that the world is gradually reopening and people are stepping out again, they are faced with the reality that life today is…

JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFFAkaroa is used to seasonal tourist numbers, but now it needs domestic visitors.No cruise ships, no international visitors — and a tourist town full of baches for rent. Can locals prove Akaroa's lifeline this winter? JODY O'CALLAGHAN reports. Suffering Akaroa businesses fear the Banks Peninsula town will "die" without…

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. We are all in this together. No, by that I do not mean what Andrew Horney calls “all those cloyingly saccharine, feel-good public service announcements being delivered by famous faces on television and social media platforms, telling us "we're all in…

The cafes lining Venice’s Piazza San Marco were closed, their chairs stacked and roped off instead of accommodating guests sipping Aperol spritzes on Monday afternoon, though officially Venice was open for business.“Those are bars for tourists,” said Anna Dal Bello, a 21-year-old university student who was smoking a cigarette with…

Officials in Venice have voiced hope the coronavirus crisis will provide an opportunity to reimagine one of the world’s most fragile cities, creating a more sustainable tourism industry and attracting more full-time residents. or years, the Italian city has faced an almost existential crisis, as the unbridled success of its…

In this picture taken on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, a man wearing a sanitary mask walks in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. ANTONIO CALANNI/AP By COLLEEN BARRY | Associated Press | Published: May 16, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge.…

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By Colleen BarryThe Associated PressSat., May 16, 2020timer5 min. readVENICE, Italy - In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, children’s play now fills neighbourhood squares, fishermen sell their catch to home cooks, and water buses convey masked and gloved commuters to…

MARTIN RANDALL TRAVELMartin Randall has branch offices in Australia, New Zealand and North America.Martin Randall began working in the travel industry in 1979 and founded Martin Randall Travel in 1988. He reinvented many aspects of cultural travel and the company remains the market leader in high-end, lecturer-accompanied cultural tours in…

According to Serge Morand, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the CNRS and CIRAD, researchers in ecology and the environmental sciences are more politically-minded than they were 20 or 30 years ago. Projects that combine scientific research with political action involving local communities are mushrooming around the world.In 2016 you…