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Branson Beats Jeff Bezos to Area, Aiming to Open Area Tourism

SPACEPORT AMERICA, NM – Richard Branson ragte mehr als 80 Kilometer in den heißen, gleißend hellen Himmel über New Mexico auf und erfüllte sich endlich einen Traum, dessen Verwirklichung Jahrzehnte dauerte: Er darf sich jetzt Astronaut…

In Hawaii, Reimagining Tourism for a Put up-Pandemic World

Following the outbreak of the pandemic, Governor David Ige issued an executive order halting the payment of hotel and other temporary accommodation taxes paid by visitors to the agency. These funds have been used to support other…

For Planet Earth, No Tourism is a Curse and a Blessing

For the planet, the year without tourists was a curse and a blessing.With flights canceled, cruise ships mothballed and vacations largely scrapped, carbon emissions plummeted. Wildlife that usually kept a low profile amid a crush of…

Why Medical Tourism Is Drawing Sufferers, Even in a Pandemic

"Our market has always been what I call the 'working poor' and they are getting poorer," said Josef Woodman, CEO of Patients Without Frontiers. "The pandemic has wiped out low-income and middle-class people around the world, and for many…