Successful comedian credits her study abroad Semester-at-Sea experience for her career success.
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Immigration: U.S. Immigrant Population Reaches Highest Since 1890
A look at the number of people in the U.S. with close immigrant connections.
Continue readingMuseums restricting access to the wealthy, says NY Times
Guggenheim raises admission price to $30/person – and says this is now the normal ticket price for major museums that have yet to recover from the public health enforced closures….
Continue readingTaxes: Europe, “overrun” with tourists, is increasing prices
Too many tourists has many European destinations increasing fees, adding tourist taxes, reservation requirements, and banning cruise ships in ports.
Continue readingAir Travel: More travelers need government permission to travel
Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel From the U.S. to Europe (reason.com) The U.S. has been adding increasing number of restrictions on travel to the U.S. Since 2011, Europeans have to…
Continue readingEco: Professor says we need to consider banning travel
Says Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at the University College London. He says we need to re-think the “summer vacation” and stay local. Opinion: Vacations as we know…
Continue readingTaxes: Bali to Impose Tourist Tax starting in 2024
The popular tourist destination hopes the tourist fee will deter travelers from acting up. Source: Bali to Impose Tourist Tax | TravelPulse While this is a small tax compared to…
Continue readingImmigration privilege – again
A shockingly high percent of Americans have “immigration” privilege that gives them a right of immigration or residency in other countries, due to “right of descent” ancestry laws. Many travel or even move back and forth between countries, oblivious to their unique privilege that many of us lack.
Continue readingBhutan charges visitors $200 per day, each, to visit
Bhutan modifies its $200 per day per visitor tourism fee. The goal is to restrict travel to, mostly, the wealthy elite while saying it’s for sustainability and the environment.
Continue readingOut of touch: “The Case Against Travel”
Prof. Agnes Callard writes a column for The New Yorker asserting that most people do not learn much from their travels, suggesting travel is therefore not good. She, herself is a global elitist, having been born abroad, studied abroad (multiple times), lived abroad (multiple times), and organized conferences abroad, and from her own words and CV, has done much international travel. But that was okay because she came back “transformed”, unlike the unwashed masses that we permit to travel today.
Good grief. This is academic intellectualism in 2023.
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