March 10, 2023

What’s on Weibo: Chinese Tourism Bureau Chiefs Go Viral for Trying Really, Really Hard to Attract More Post-Covid Domestic Tourists

What’s on Weibo: Chinese Tourism Bureau Chiefs Go Viral for Trying Really, Really Hard to Attract More Post-Covid Domestic Tourists. “Hoping to attract more domestic tourists in the post-Covid-era, Chinese local government officials are trying really hard to promote their hometowns. Various tourism bureau chiefs from across China are going viral on Weibo, Douyin, and beyond for dressing up in traditional outfits and creating original videos with low to zero budget.”

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March 10, 2023

Telegraph India: Google pages of hill hotels defaced for fraud

Telegraph India: Google pages of hill hotels defaced for fraud. “Google pages of many Darjeeling hotels, including premier properties, have been compromised en bloc in such a way that customers booking rooms are directed to pay advance amounts to bank accounts which don’t belong to the owners of the accommodations. The widespread tampering with the Google pages comes at a time there is a rush to book hotel rooms for the upcoming tourism season.”

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March 7, 2023

Condé Nast Traveler: Native California, a Just-Launched Online Database, Connects Travelers to the State’s Indigenous Heritage

Condé Nast Traveler: Native California, a Just-Launched Online Database, Connects Travelers to the State’s Indigenous Heritage. “Launching this week, Visit Native California is an online hub from the state’s tourism bureau, intended to help local residents as well as visitors plan trips to places linked to the original occupants of the area. It’s one of the first state-led guides of this nature.”

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January 19, 2023

University of Rochester: The ethics of dark tourism

University of Rochester: The ethics of dark tourism. “[Julia Granato] offers a history of the collection and treatment of human remains in the West, and a discussion of the recent phenomenon of ‘dark tourism’—the visiting of sites that commemorate or offer reminders of tragedy or death…As part of her research, Granato has created a virtual component—an interactive map of dark tourism sites in the western world.”

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January 14, 2023

StreetsBlog Cal: New Tool Helps Planners and Public Visualize Vehicle Miles Traveled

StreetsBlog Cal: New Tool Helps Planners and Public Visualize Vehicle Miles Traveled. “Fehr & Peers has developed a new tool to help planner and the public ‘see’ how much driving people do, both locally and regionally, in California. This is useful for planning, for grant applications, for estimating traffic impacts from projects, and for estimating greenhouse gases from transportation.”

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November 23, 2022

New York Times: As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid

New York Times: As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid. “Before Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, the company’s executives had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel invoices that the social media service planned to pay. But once Mr. Musk took over the company, he refused to reimburse travel vendors for those bills, current and former Twitter employees said. Mr. Musk’s staff said the services were authorized by the company’s former management and not by him. His staff have since avoided the calls of the travel vendors, the people said.”

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October 19, 2022

EU Science Hub: A tourism dashboard for greener, digitally savvy and resilient EU destinations

EU Science Hub: A tourism dashboard for greener, digitally savvy and resilient EU destinations. “The Commission launches today the EU Tourism Dashboard, a new tool to help policy makers at country and regional level to steer policies and strategies in the tourism ecosystem. The aim of this tool is to improve access to statistics and policy-relevant indicators for tourism, supporting destinations and public authorities in tracking their progress in the green and digital transition.”

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October 8, 2022

Edinburgh Live: Edinburgh tourist nearly banned from social media over ‘graphic image’ from castle visit

Edinburgh Live: Edinburgh tourist nearly banned from social media over ‘graphic image’ from castle visit. “An American tourist who visited Edinburgh Castle and used a picture of her being ‘beheaded’ as her new dating profile picture almost got banned from social media as a result. Shelby Daun, 30, visited one of the capital’s top tourist attractions and posed on the ground next to a knight that put a fake head next to her body to make it look like she had ‘lost her head’.”

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October 8, 2022

Vox: The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be

Vox: The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be. “The problem of travel at this particular moment is not too many people traveling in general, it is too many people wanting to experience the exact same thing because they all went to the same websites and read the same reviews. It’s created the idea that if you do not go to this specific bar or stay in this exact neighborhood, all the money and time you spent on being here has been wasted, and you have settled for something that is not as perfect as it could have been.”

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October 7, 2022

Washington Post: Europe’s largest airline is a troll on social media — and it’s working for them

Washington Post: Europe’s largest airline is a troll on social media — and it’s working for them . “Last month, when a Ryanair passenger tweeted a complaint about the lack of a window by her exit row seat, she might have expected Europe’s largest airline to offer an apology using language straight out of a customer service manual. But this wasn’t British Airways or Lufthansa. It was a no-frills carrier that might best be described to Americans as the Spirit Airlines of Europe — if Spirit had the most savage Twitter presence of any brand in the sky.”

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