by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (26 days ago)

Oct 30th, 2009 at 12:00PM: National Geographic Traveler has released the results of its 6th annual survey of authenticity and "destination stewardship". The survey, ranks 133 places on earth according to how well (or how poorly) the local governments, businesses and residents are protecting the area from degradation, along with other factors like risk of natural disasters. 437 panelists scored each destination according ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (8 months ago)

Mar 26th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Last year, 58 million international visitors came to the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. That's an increase of nearly 4 percent from 2007. To sweeten it up a bit, 13 of the top 25 arrivals markets saw new records set. In the last month of the year, nearly 4 million people came here from abroad – down 7 percent. The fourth quarter was down 6 percent ...

by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (9 months ago)

Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Everyone has different reasons for why they like to travel, and their destinations of choice vary just as much. Some love to visit noisy, bustling foreign cities, others prefer the quiet tranquility of a secluded beach. Then of course, there are the travelers who truly like to get away from it all. They prefer to visit remote wilderness places, far off the beaten path, with few, if any, amenities. ...

by Brenda Yun (RSS feed) (9 months ago)

Feb 13th, 2009 at 2:00PM: A mutual agreement allowing Europeans, nationals from four Caribbean countries, and citizens of two island nations in the Indian Ocean is expected to be passed and approved by the end of March, which will allow for hassle-free and smoother travel. If you hold a passport from any of the following countries, it means you're that much more free to travel between those listed sans visa: Austria, ...

by Brenda Yun (RSS feed) (9 months ago)

Feb 7th, 2009 at 4:00PM: I've been to Alaska twice and not once did I see the northern lights. Maybe it was the wrong season or maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but I'm sure when I do see them (and I will) I won't forget the sight. That's what one of our dedicated and intrepid adventuring photographers, localsurfer, discovered on a trip to Norway four years ago. He writes, "It's impossible to really take a picture of ...

by Kent Wien (RSS feed) (1 year ago)

Sep 18th, 2008 at 9:00PM: Today's photo of the day comes from Flickr user pirano who captured this picture, titled Fist and Rose in Oslo, Norway. You might think the sculptor was trying to make a political statement, but from the accounts in the comments of this site, he apparently never intended for it to be political. Pirano did a nice job of using the sun to highlight the sculpture, giving it a fantastic glowing cast. ...

by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (1 year ago)

Jan 11th, 2008 at 9:30AM: If there is anything to learn from this truly bizarre case, it should be "do not overestimate cultural differences." Barbora Skrlova, 33, duped Norwegian police, classmates, child care workers and teachers for four months into believing she was a teenage boy named "Adam". She went to school and all. The kids in "his" classroom thought the boy was a "little strange", but since they were brought ...

by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (2 years ago)

Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:26AM: So Western Europe, particularly the Nordic countries, are 'all that'? Maybe not, when it comes to safe sex. There's a very interesting graphic in this month's Foreign Policy magazine regarding which countries practice safe sex and get STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). The study (more parts of which appear here) was sponsored by Durex condoms and put together by Miguel Fontes of Johns ...

by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (2 years ago)

Oct 3rd, 2007 at 7:45AM: "Climate-change tourism" is something we're going to be hearing a lot more about in the near future. In fact, it's already here in some parts of the world. What is climate-change tourism exactly? That's when a traditionally frozen arctic wasteland like Greenland suddenly starts to warm up, shed its ice, and become hospitable. As a result, tourists who used to shun such frigid environs are now ...

by Erik Olsen (RSS feed) (2 years ago)

Jun 19th, 2007 at 12:01PM: Gonna draw again from a series of my own photos today for the Gadling Photo of the Day. This one comes from Norway, from where I recently returned after a glorious ten-day trip exploring fjords and cities and lovely little Scandinavian villages. The shot here of a rainbow over the fjord was taken late one afternoon after a very satisfying nap. I actually shot it right from the balcony of the ...

by Erik Olsen (RSS feed) (2 years ago)

Apr 5th, 2007 at 11:45AM: My wife and I are planning our upcoming trip to Norway and we're trying to decide whether it's worth the effort to take a boat called the Coastal Steamer up to the Western Fjords...places with pretty much unpronounceable (and unspellable) names like Geirangerfjord and Naroyfjord (names, several letters of which, do not seem displayable here because they are, well, weird-looking letters). Well, ...

by Jonathon Morgan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)

Apr 3rd, 2007 at 4:01PM: Next time you're traveling through Norway and have goods to declare, chances are your transaction will take place at one of the world's first automatic customs tellers. The Finance Minster is excited because the move leaves his "personnel to fight more serious smuggling," and I agree. You can always tell with customs officials are bored -- they grab the first shaggy-looking college student they ...

by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (2 years ago)

Mar 6th, 2007 at 4:02PM: According to a recent study by The Economist, the World's Ten Most Expensive Cities are: Oslo Paris Copenhagen London Tokyo Osaka Kobe Reykjavik Zurich Frankfurt Helsinki The most expensive city in the US is, of course, New York (thank you very much) -- though it didn't show up on ...