Review | The Best American Travel Writing 2019
The ‘Best American Travel Writing 2019’ features pieces on either dangerous places or the pursuit of the exotic as well-informed as they are well-written.
Geography of Google Search
Explore Adventure analyzes where and when people in different countries search for locations in other countries.
New Tourism Geography Book on Destination Competitiveness and Sustainability
A new book in the CABI Series in Tourism Management Research has been released.
Tourism in North Korea
More and more people are flocking to the tightly controlled state for a peek into one of the most mysterious nations on Earth.
What is Tourism Geography?
By the 1950s, tourism geography began to be accepted as its own domain, especially in scientific works from USA and Germany.
Virtual Kicks on Route 66
You can now wax nostalgic online with the new site launched by the National Park Service to commemorate Route 66 (aka the Mother Road). The … Read more
Book: The New Age of Adventure
Published by National Geographic Adventure, this anthology features adventurous tales written by such famous writers as Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, and Philip Caputo
New World Heritage Sites
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added nineteen new cultural and eight new natural sites to the World Heritage List. There are … Read more
48 States in 106 Hours
Joshua Keeler, Joey Stocking and Adam Gatherum blasted through the 48 continental states in 106 hours in order to break and old Guinness records. After … Read more
Geography of Bliss
This book takes the reader through ten of the happiest and least happiest places one earth in an attempt to tweak out what makes people happy.
Virtual Parks
If you’ve ever aspired to visit some of the world’s greatest natural parks but haven’t been able to get to them, the site VirtualParks.org can … Read more
Ben’s Place of the Week
The Oxford University Press has an official blog which features posts from Ben Keene who happens to be the editor of the Oxford Atlas of … Read more
Stuck Woman Traps South African Cave Group
An overweight woman who was warned she was too large by the cave managers for the Cango Caves in Western Cape got stuck and trapped … Read more