Global tourism after the pandemic: the boom in numbers and the rise of "revenge travel"
UN Tourism and ISTAT figures on the post-pandemic surge in global tourism, the "revenge travel" phenomenon, and why it fuels overtourism.
Jun 29, 2026Natura e viaggio lento
Cura le guide su parchi, sentieri e aree naturali: quando andare per non affollare un luogo fragile e le alternative alle mete più battute.
UN Tourism and ISTAT figures on the post-pandemic surge in global tourism, the "revenge travel" phenomenon, and why it fuels overtourism.
Jun 29, 2026
A practical 5-step method for choosing where to go and avoiding the crowds: dates, alternatives, the scale of a place, data, and timing.
Jun 29, 2026
A 7.5-hectare botanical garden on Budapest's Gellért hill: 2,000 woody species, Hungary's oldest Persian ironwood, free admission.
Jun 28, 2026
The monumental cemetery of Nørrebro in Copenhagen: tree-lined avenues, the graves of Andersen and Kierkegaard, and locals reading in the sun.
Jun 28, 2026
A botanical garden from 1791 on Lake Brunnsviken in Stockholm: 9,000 species, the giant water lilies of the Victoriahuset and very few tourists.
Jun 28, 2026
In Phibsborough, Dublin 7, a former nineteenth-century reservoir where water covers 80% of the park: swans, an island and stone walls.
Jun 28, 2026
In Setagaya, the only natural gorge in Tokyo's 23 central wards: 1 km of trail among bamboo, an 1100s temple and a sacred waterfall.
Jun 28, 2026
Gio-ji in Sagano (Kyoto): a tiny convent with a carpet of moss beneath the maples, tied to the dancer Gio. Twenty minutes from Arashiyama.
Jun 28, 2026
On an island in the Han River in Seoul, a former water-treatment plant transformed into an ecological park: concrete basins overrun by plants.
Jun 28, 2026