☮️ On the future of Israel's tourism industry and the potential rise of solidarity tourism by Sam Scanlon via The Conversation Global.

theconversation.com/war-in-gaza-ha…

On the efficacy of tourist taxes as a means of exercising control over tourism flows. By Rhys ap Gwilym & Linda Osti via The Conversation.

💰 The impact of tourism taxes on visitor numbers is inconclusive.

theconversation.com/why-you-should…

On contested heritage and access rights for tourism, leisure and recreation, and the long and lingering tail of colonisation.

via Noema Magazine
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Solid bilateral relations can benefit tourism.

“With this visa exemption and resumption of direct flights from China to Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and other Latin American destinations, the time and cost for tourists are expected to significantly decrease.'

scmp.com/news/china/art…

On vacationomics.

Tourism talk World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development.

🔺 How to grow tourism sustainably?

🔺 Tourism is serious business in the Gulf States.

🔺 China and India to fuel tourism.

#SpecialMeeting24

3 exemplars for sustainable tourism - perspectives from Peter Lochbihler, Global Head of Public Affairs at Booking

(1) Paris and pollution reduction
(2) Vienna and affordable housing
(3) Copenhagen and waste management

euronews.com/travel/2024/04…

As the spectre of overtourism looms large, this is evidently more than a media-driven moral panic, and academic notion - it is in plain sight, and in the everyday, driving communities to react.

aljazeera.com/amp/program/th…

The IGU has teamed up with Edward Elgar Publishing to produce a ground-breaking book series on Contemporary Geographies. Now we're on the hunt for new, original, thought-provoking, and globally-minded manuscripts! Go to e-elgar.com/publish-with-u… and complete our form.

In memory of legendary anthropologist and geographer of tourism studies, the late Prof. Valene Smith, Tourism Geographies has commissioned a forthcoming special issue of tribute pieces from scholars who worked with Smith, or have been influenced and guided by 'Host and Guests'.

At today’s inaugural Alan Lew Special Lecture at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Honolulu American Association of Geographers we were privileged to have Alan and his wife Mable join us.

Writer Nick Hunt's homage to travel, and the pilgrimage:

✈ 'Travel, as has often been noted, has a warping effect on time, elongating it in some ways while compressing it in others -
noemamag.com/traveling-at-t…

🆓 This article is available OPEN ACCESS and FREE to DOWNLOAD.

🔗 See doi.org/10.1080/146166…

🔗 The article is available OPEN ACCESS and 🆓 to download

doi.org/10.1080/146166…

💥 Just published in Tourism Geographies.

⚫️ Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China.

🚹 Authors:
🔸Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
🔸 Shulan Fu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

🌟 Just published in Tourism Geographies.

🌍 Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa

🚺 Author:
Maureen Ayikoru
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, UK

✅ This article will in the forthcoming special issue, UNSETTLING GEOGRAPHIES OF TOURISM.

On cruise ship gigantism and other discontents and absurdities.

“The ship makes no sense, vertically or horizontally. It makes no sense on sea, or on land, or in outer space.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…?

Are you attending the 2024 AAG Annual Meeting, Hawaii, 16-20 April?

If yes, don’t miss the Inaugural Alan A. Lew Inaugural Lecture, organised by AAG Recreation, Tourism & Sport Specialty Group.

The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Lew who will ask, WHY TRAVEL?

See details 👇🏾

'Travel is at a tipping point. From Caribbean beaches to remote villages in Kenya, forgotten voices reveal the real conditions and consequences of one of the largest industries in the world. The role of the modern tourist is on trial.'

See full 📽️: youtube.com/watch?v=t_NyoQ…

🚩 “ Heli-skiing on virgin snow in Antarctica - $2.2 million. A polar bear safari in an 'off-limits' area of Norway's Svalbard - $300,000. Tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas with renowned explorers - $100,000?”

Sustainability be damned 💀.

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May this Easter bring love, hope, forgiveness and compassion into our lives! This spring season could be an opportunity for unity and new beginnings!

#happy #Easter #geography