Closed for maintenance – how the Faroe Islands shook up the voluntourism game
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Why a gang of Spanish grannies covered an entire street in woolly blankets
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In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
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Why miners risk their lives to get sulfur from an active volcano | Risky Business
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Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures
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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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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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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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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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They were the last couple in paradise. Now they’re stranded
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Coronavirus forces cruise ships to drop anchor in surprising places around the world
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Mass monkey brawl highlights coronavirus effect on Thailand tourism
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Quarantined by coronavirus, cruise ship passengers make 'life-long friends'
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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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The fall of Prague: ‘Drunk tourists are acting like they’ve conquered our city’
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Wonderful Copenhagen was set up to bring more tourists to the Danish capital – now it's under fire for doing too little to stop them coming
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Over-tourism and photo-seekers have been damaging the world's most beautiful places, and even causing some to close to visitors entirely
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Murder in the Moroccan mountains: The fragility of the adventure travel economy and what happens when a small tourist hub is shocked by violence
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Wherever you are, there’s a state park nearby
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The Norwegian city of Sommarøy wants to abolish time
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Can tourism ruin cities?
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‘It’s getting like Disneyland’: Bruges pulls up drawbridge on tourists
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Removing love locks from bridges and statues
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‘Fairbnb’ wants to be the unproblematic alternative to Airbnb
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The backlash against overtourism
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The business of voluntourism: Do western do-gooders actually do harm?
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Overtourism: A growing global problem
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