A popular travel/global work influencer announces she has applied for right-of-descent citizenship in Romania, so that she can eventually live in Europe fulltime. Thos who can do this have “immigration privilege”, something most of us lack.
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Voluntourism is still a scam
“Voluntourism” is back in the news. The field is still field with scams, and even decent ones are not typically an effective use of resources.
Continue readingImmigration: The end of “Golden Visas”?
Many countries have curtailed their “Golden Visa” programs that sold residency or citizenship visas for a big fee.
Continue readingImmigration: 1 in 4 Gen Z’ers surveyed say they want to move abroad
There is a big media meme that “America is awful, we should move to another country where everything is wonderful”. It’s a pop meme of fluffy content mills. Here’s another one!
Continue readingTaxes: San Juan Islands, WA proposes “tourism fee”
New taxes on tourists are coming to even traveling inside the U.S. These are in addition to existing hotel taxes.
Continue readingTaxes: Amsterdam raising tourist taxes
The daily fee charged to cruise ship day visitors will go from 8 to 11 euros, or $8.50 to $11.60, and the nightly fee built into hotel room prices will…
Continue readingEco tourism: Barcelona closes port terminal to cruise ships
Cruise ships will now need to dock much further away from the city center, to reduce the impact of thousands of tourists leaving ships simultaneously: Barcelona restricts cruise ship access,…
Continue readingImmigration: Should you immigrate?
The media runs frequent stories about Person X got fed up with the U.S. and moved abroad (except often they didn’t really move abroad full time), and they had immigration privileges to start with. Also turns out many move abroad for the wrong reasons.
Continue readingOvertourism: Locations worldwide seek ways to reduce tourism pressures
Communities, world wide, are seeking controls, limits and fees on tourists, to reduce pressure of “over-tourism”.
Continue readingImmigration: Anyone can move to Italy, of course
CNN has become a content mill web site, pushing out fluffy stories ad nauseam. Here is another of their fantasy stories about someone who moved to Italy and now lives in a castle at age 21.
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