China’s new entry rules spur tourism, but lingering hurdles still a deterrent
During the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday in February, China recorded 3.23 million tourism-related entries, roughly the same as the festival period in 2019, the official Xinhua News Agency said in February. A big boost to these figures came in December, when China began allowing citizens of certain countries to enter visa-free for 15 days. […]
As Travelers Search For Meaning, Indigenous Tourism Is Taking Off
Mauricio Painefil, a village elder in the native Mapuche community of Llaguepulli in Central Chile. Christopher Elliott Visitors are “shocked” when they come to his native community in central Chile, says Mauricio Painefil, one of the village elders. “They do not expect the richness of culture,” he says, standing in front of a traditional Mapuche […]
‘Unimaginable excess’: Bid to attract showy superyachts to Cape Breton under scrutiny – Halifax | Globalnews.ca
Not so long ago, the largest community in Cape Breton was best known as home to one of the most toxic waste sites in North America: the infamous Sydney tar ponds. Containing one million tonnes of oozing sewage and industrial sludge — left behind after centuries of steelmaking — the site has since been capped […]