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Articles tagged “nature”

Business Travel

The New Luxury Vacation Is Crunchier and Quieter

As guests seek personalization, authenticity, and experiences outside their daily grinds, these well-designed outdoor lodges hit a sweet spot by maintaining a low profile that appeals to their customers' underlying desire to disconnect.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 7 years ago

The New Luxury Vacation Is Crunchier and Quieter

Tourism

Peru Makes the Best of Shrinking Glacier by Launching Climate Change Tours

Destinations around the world are feeling the impact of warmer temperatures and changing physical landscapes mean local businesses have to move to stay alive, or get very creative.

Mitra Taj, Reuters | 10 years ago

Peru Makes the Best of Shrinking Glacier by Launching Climate Change Tours

Tourism

Sea of green algae off the Chinese coast isn’t as bad for tourism as you’d think

Although disruptive to the usual tourism season, the photos of swimmers in Qingdao’s waters are so unusual that they’ve spread around the world and brought the city a new wave of attention.

Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times | 11 years ago

Sea of green algae off the Chinese coast isn’t as bad for tourism as you’d think

Tourism

Puerto Rico might limit visitors to popular bio-luminescent bay

The bioluminescent bay is one of the most well-known of Puerto Rico’s attractions and limiting the number of visitors while increasing costs may be a sustainable means to ensuring the site’s livelihood.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Puerto Rico might limit visitors to popular bio-luminescent bay

Tourism

Grand Canyon tourists charged by private landowner to reach scenic point

The Arizona resident is making a point by charging unsuspecting visitors on one of the busiest weekends of the year, but its unlikely his protest will persist as some type of deal will be worked out.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Grand Canyon tourists charged by private landowner to reach scenic point

Tourism

Rhode Island’s destroyed tourist spot that won’t be fixed for summer

New Jersey’s press push boasting the shore’s rebound after Sandy washed out many discussions about the parts of the Northeast that haven't been able to bounce back so quickly.

Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Rhode Island’s destroyed tourist spot that won’t be fixed for summer

Airlines

EasyJet plans to trial volcanic ash detection system with real Icelandic dust

EasyJet was one of many European airlines whose operations were battered by the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010, and recent events suggest natural disasters are on rise making protective systems a priority among travel operators.

Kari Lundgren | 11 years ago

EasyJet plans to trial volcanic ash detection system with real Icelandic dust

Tourism

Upstate New York fights to save tourism in face of gas-storage plans

Both tourism and the storage facilities would boost the Finger Lake’s economy, but critics of the storage plan fairly claim tourism poses a lesser threat to the region’s natural resources and safety.

Mary Esch, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Upstate New York fights to save tourism in face of gas-storage plans

Tourism

In search of the evasive Aurora Borealis on a Norwegian winter night

The Northern Lights, and the countries that reap the benefits of tourists searching for the sight, is a prime example of just how tied geography is to the tourism industry.

Emsal Leo, The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

In search of the evasive Aurora Borealis on a Norwegian winter night

Tourism

Get up close and personal with Mount Everest with new zoom photograph

Online photographs could one day be the only way to experience global world wonders as Machu Picchu continues to crumble and the ice and snows of Mount Everest begins to melt away.

Ed Douglas, The Guardian | 11 years ago

Get up close and personal with Mount Everest with new zoom photograph