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A perennial favourite for foreign visitors to Japan, Kyoto is so concerned about a return to the "overtourism" that plagued the ancient capital before the pandemic that it has launched an online map that charts the crowds at tourist hotspots. The Kyoto Travel Congestion Forecast site, available in English and Chinese, analyses mobile phone location data since 2019 and factors.
(The Conversation) As the global population continues to grow, space for putting the dead to rest is at a premium. In the U.S., some of the biggest cities are already short on burial land, and so are many other nations around the world.
At the same time, many nations are transforming funerary rituals, changing the way cemeteries operate and even destroying historic cemeteries to reclaim land for the living. In Singapore, for example, the government has forcibly demolished family tombs in favor of columbariums, structures that can hold the urns of the cremated. Grave spaces in the city-state can be used only for a term of 15 years, after which the remains are cremated and the space is used for another burial.