Too many tourists has many European destinations increasing fees, adding tourist taxes, reservation requirements, and banning cruise ships in ports.
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Air 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.
Continue readingChairman Xi Jinping says people need to travel more
Travel enhances understanding and develops new ways of viewing problems and identifying solutions.
Continue readingAustralia’s immigrant age discrimination is intense
Several countries practice intense age discrimination towards immigrants. Australia has told a British couple in their 50s that they are now too old to apply for permanent residency and must leave Australia, even though they lived there for 8 years. Australia bans residency applications for those over age 45.
Continue reading“Passport bros” – that’s a new term
Yet another “story” sourced to social media posts, this one posits that American men are traveling abroad in search of a vaguely defined “traditional wife”. Everything posted on social media is of critical importance, meaningful and accurate and is the highest qualify source of information. Hah hah.
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