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When travel restrictions stopped bird-watchers from visiting the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö, hidden ecosystem dynamics were revealed
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Iceland's innovations to reach net-zero – in pictures
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Kazakhstan stops resisting Borat, adopts "Very nice!" tourism slogan
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The COVID cruise ship and the Maine fishing town
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Christmas in danger as Santa's Lapland home feels pandemic chill – flocks of tourists who usually start to make merry in Rovaniemi at this time of year cannot enter the country
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The Paris morgue provided ghoulish entertainment
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Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
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Spectacular new step-bridge floats over Norwegian waterfall Vøringsfossen – the project, designed by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, has been over a decade in the making
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Swedes have long embraced their version of staycations: hemester – Covid-19 travel restrictions and remote working are reshaping the tradition
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Tourist detraction: An opinion piece arguing for dismantling the global tourism industry
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Fishing has always been a way of life on the Faroe Islands, where fish accounts for 90% of all exported goods – but coronavirus is hitting its efforts to increase tourism
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An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar
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You've been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to let your frustrations out – record your scream and we'll release it in Iceland
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Hawaii grapples with Great Depression-level unemployment as tourism plummets
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Check in but never leave: Taiwan offers fake flights for travel-starved tourists
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Will places that depend on tourism be more open to high tech, given that remote work is more accepted?
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European Union may bar American travelers as it reopens borders, citing failures on virus
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Visitors return to Spain as coronavirus state of emergency ends
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Would you give up flying to lower your environmental impact?
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'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness
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Las Vegas casinos reopening
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Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
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Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess
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Control your Faroe Islands tour guide – the country is attaching cameras to tour guides and letting the internet control where they go
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Jeff Bezos’ space company is pressuring employees to launch a tourist rocket during the pandemic
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Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020
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Hundreds of ravenous wild monkeys terrorise Thai city in search of food after coronavirus drives tourists away
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Coronavirus forces cruise ships to drop anchor in surprising places around the world
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Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away
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State Department warns Americans against cruise ship travel during coronavirus outbreak
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Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Quarantined by coronavirus, cruise ship passengers make 'life-long friends'
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Here are the routes for the Danish stages of the 2021 Tour de France, which will take place on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th next year
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Ten passengers aboard a cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus
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Utah wanted all the tourists. Then it got them
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Two Chinese nationals in their early twenties have been found dead at the site of a 1973 plane crash in southern Iceland
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Iceland's tourism revolution
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Langjökull – Thirty-nine tourists got stuck for hours in a blizzard at an Icelandic glacier, but are now safe
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New tourism ad for Australia: "Matesong" featuring Kylie Minogue
I just discovered this new tourist advertisement for Australia. It's sung (mostly) by Kylie Minogue, and aimed directly at a British (English?) audience. As an Aussie, I found a few moments in...
I just discovered this new tourist advertisement for Australia. It's sung (mostly) by Kylie Minogue, and aimed directly at a British (English?) audience.
As an Aussie, I found a few moments in this ad to smile at.
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Snow machines and fleece blankets: Inside the ski industry's battle with climate change
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The demise of formal nights on cruises: How dress codes are tearing passengers apart
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The twenty travel trends we predict for 2020
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New Zealand volcano: Tourists injured and missing after eruption on White Island (live updates)
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Chaos at the top of the world - The untold stories behind the viral photo of the deadly traffic jam at the top of Mount Everest
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Sweden has been named the most LGBT-friendly country in the world for travellers according to new research into gay rights in 150 countries
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My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic”
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Jayson from Vegas flies in for final hike up 'symbol of all Australia'
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Finland has become the latest destination to introduce a tourism pledge – asking visitors to the country to promise to respect its nature, culture and inhabitants
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A walk in Hong Kong - HK protests from point of view of a tourist
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