On July 21, 2025, wildlife guide and photographer, Nick Kleer, posted an Instagram reel and photo that showed a crush of tourists watching the great Masai Mara wildebeest migration in the Serengeti. “Herds were forced to scatter, some ran for cliffs and jumped in panic,” he noted in his
Morocco’s renowned Kasbah du Toubkal has racked up a three-decade record for good stewardship and community relations. Few lodges have had such a profound impact on their surrounding communities. During a visit, Jonathan Tourtellot learns how this came to be. Mountain Lodge Shows What It Takes to Marry Success with
EN ES El flujo de turistas que visitan un destino pasan a formar parte de ese destino. ¿Qué dicen, qué hacen, cómo gastan, cómo se comportan: como invitados o como invasores? – hace la diferencia. Cada vez más, las organizaciones de destinos quieren informar a sus visitantes sobre no hacer
EN ES The stream of tourists who visit a destination become part of that destination. What they say, what they do, how they spend, how they behave – as guests or invaders? – makes a difference. Increasingly, destination organizations want to brief their visitors on doing no harm, even doing
The pandemic exposed the dangers of ‘tourism monocultures’ – dependence on one product only – versus a more holistic approach to tourism fare. Gayathri Hegde has been researching the differing tourism experiences of Dandeli and Joida, neighboring towns in Karnataka, southwestern India. River Rafting Alone Does Not a Destination Make
“Reset Tourism” Webinar Series 2 & 3 – The Future of Tourism Coalition‘s four-part “Reset Tourism” series is intended to help destinations emerge from the Covid crisis with new forms of governance and collaboration that will enable a more holistic and sustainable approach to tourism management and development. Our Spring 2021 issue covered the first webinar, on destination stewardship.
“In 2019, over 1.5 billion tourists crossed international borders and tourism’s continued growth seemed assured. However, in 2020, tourism stopped in its tracks. The world went from overtourism to no tourism.” – Kelsey Frenkiel, Program Manager at the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) and co-editor of Overtourism: Lessons for a
European Cities Impose Stricter Tourist Taxes | TTW
Livability is the goal.
Berlin to Follow Danish Model | The Berliner
Rewarding tourists for making sustainable choices.
Bali Ditches Inappropriate Sightseeing Elevator | TTW
Iceland Rethinks Mass Tourism | NY Times
Airbnb Crackdown in New York Didn’t Free up Housing | WSJ
The 2023 rules muted tourist partying but not soaring rents.
Celebrity Power: Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico Supports Sustainable Tourism | Washington Post
Jamica’s Sunken Port Royal Now on World Heritage List | Travel & Leisure
Morocco’s Gnaoua Music Festival Said to Lose Authenticity | TTW
As tourism rises, founding African diaspora communities fade
Greenland Town Divided Over Cruise Ships | Guardian
Ilulissat locals say they’re frozen out of cruise bounty
Too Much Success on Scotland’s 500 Drive | NY Times
Tourism on Peru’s Rainbow Mountain Sparked a Visionary’s Murder | Bloomburg