Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? — The Dial

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How American tourists took over everything.

Fiji wrestles with plans to restore Indigenous rights over world-famous surf breaks

www.theguardian.com

In Fiji, babies know a connection to the sea from birth; their umbilical cords, or vicovico, are sometimes implanted in the reefs that frame the coastal Pacific nation, embedded among the coral. It's an age-old practice among iTaukei, the Indigenous…

Pilgrims turn Spain’s Santiago de Compostela into the world’s latest overtourism flashpoint

apnews.com

Residents of Santiago de Compostela are struggling with overtourism. A neighborhood association has tried to address the issue by distributing a guide to good manners for visitors.

The Precarious Future of Big Sur’s Highway 1

The New Yorker

On the afternoon of March 30th, Magnus Torén, the director of the Henry Miller Memorial Library, in Big Sur, California, had a plane to catch, the first leg of a long-planned vacation in northern India.

The Myth of the Galápagos Cannot Be Sustained

The Atlantic

Tourism campaigns tout the archipelago as a diorama of prehistory. But that narrative could help degrade the islands even further.

The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go

The Atlantic

Take Antarctica off your travel bucket list. On the southernmost continent, you can see enormous stretches of wind-sculpted ice that seem carved from marble, and others that are smooth and green as emerald. You can see icebergs, whales, emperor penguins.

How ‘begpackers’ became some of Asia’s most disliked travelers

When Hong Kong resident Ashley James first started seeing “begpackers” on the streets of his city in spring of 2023, he had two simultaneous thoughts: leisure tourism had returned to Asia, and it was time to make some memes about it.

When digital nomads come to town

Rest of World

The Semilla cafe and coworking space sits in the heart of the upscale Laureles neighborhood in the city of Medellín. It looks as if it were picked up in Silicon Valley and dropped into Colombia by a crane.

Hyper-visitation, the Fate of the National Parks, and Tourism Toxification in a Small Town

The Daily Yonder

This story was originally published by Corner Post. The trouble at Arches National Park starts at the entrance during the spring and summer, when visitation is at its highest. First, there’s a 40-minute queue of idling traffic to reach the fee booth, which is a quarter-mile off busy U.S.

The Cheetahs Made a Kill. Then the Safari Trucks Swarmed In.

The video surfaced online around October. Filmed from a distance, it shows an antelope grazing on the African plain. Suddenly, two cheetahs race toward it and the antelope takes off, running toward the camera. But the cats are too fast. They converge on it and bring it down. They begin to feed.

A Rush to See Hawaii’s Eruption Reveals Social Fissures on the Big Island

The slow-moving lava flow from Mauna Loa’s rare eruption is drawing excited tourists, while drawing out long-simmering cultural tensions.

The tale of a distressed American town on the doorstep of a natural paradise

NPR.org

A few weeks ago, my partner and I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge and headed up Highway 101 for about six hours to visit a spectacular sliver of America.

Coastal gentrification in Puerto Rico is displacing people and damaging mangroves and wetlands

The Conversation

As world travel rebounds after two years of COVID-19 shutdowns and restrictions, marketers and the media are promoting Puerto Rico as an accessible hot spot destination for continental U.S. travelers.