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The village at the end of the world, struggling for its survival
DestinationsWith a dwindling population and the modern world encroaching, Niaqornat, one of Greenland’s most remote settlements, was on the verge of extinction when Sarah Gavron first ventured there. Yet the film-maker found a village prepared to fight for its survival. The idea for Village at the End of the World came about in 2009. My [...]
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Best travel ads this week: 5 inspiring videos that soar
TransportIt’s time airlines become more creative with their advertising. They’ve found a way to make dull safety videos engaging, but ads still show the same generic images of people and attractions at carriers’ destinations. Is it the public’s growing despise for flying that keeps airlines’ advertising agencies’ focus on the ground? Or is there just [...]
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As Greenland grows food for first time, will tourism costs come down?
DestinationsInside the Arctic Circle, a chef is growing the kind of vegetables and herbs – potatoes, thyme, tomatoes, green peppers – more fitted for a suburban garden in a temperate zone than a land of northern lights, glaciers and musk oxen. Some Inuit hunters are finding reindeer fatter than ever thanks to more grazing on [...]
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Could Greenland become the next gourmet destination?
DestinationsDespite the best efforts of the Vikings, who chose its inviting name to hoodwink prospective settlers, no one expects Greenland to be lushly hospitable. Its bleak magnificence had been laid out beneath my plane window for half the morning: a frosted, monochrome enormity of granite and glaciers two-thirds the size of India, fringed with slightly [...]
