Tourism – Strangers Guide

Myanmar

A Disappearing Way of Life

by Kathy Hornsby

Global

Can We Hold Hands Here?

Exploring LGBTQ travel safety

by Ed Salvato

That gorgeous ad of a couple holding hands on the beach in the lush, mountainous Caribbean...

Spain

Mallorca has long been a favorite destination for British holiday makers. But the tourism industry has left locals with challenges like increased pollution and...

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St Maarten

The sign couldn’t be more explicit: “DANGER,” it reads, “Jet blast of departing and arriving aircraft can cause severe physical harm resulting in extreme...

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Global

Known as Dark Tourism, people visiting war zones is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly commercialized, according to Tel Aviv-based journalist Debra Kamin. The list...

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Tuvalu

It’s safe to say that vastly more armchair travelers have visited Tuvalu than have actually been there. According to statistics provided by the United...

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Global

“The truth is I am not an enthusiastic traveler. In fact, aside from work, I barely...”

Readings

Barbados

“A sequence of events that occurred at around this time … conspired to render me susceptible...”

Alain de Botton

Readings

Colombia

Desert Dwellers

A writer ponders the benefits of tourism to La Guajira, Colombia's northeastern desert.

by Rachel Sims

The dry wind sweeps desert dirt and endless trash across long and lonely miles, twisting around...

United States

Mount Auburn in Cambridge, MA was the first rural cemetery in the US, and, as a result of that distinction, one of the first...

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