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Former China resident Peter Neville-Hadley is the author of multiple guides and reference works on China, and writes on Chinese culture and on cultural travel in general for assorted periodicals. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Sunday Times (UK), and numerous other newspapers and magazines around the world.
Photographer Natacha de Mahieu has been turning her lens on some of the world’s most photographed sights. But she’s not doing it to tell us anything new about them. She wants to tell us something about ourselves. The 26-year-old Belgian photojournalist’s new series of images, Theatre of Authenticity, is a reaction to the way social media has brought us a.
Photographer Natacha de Mahieu’s new series of images taken at some of the world’s most popular Instagram spots highlights how people can ignore the very landscape they are so keen to snap.
Is post-covid tourism so different from what we knew before? The answer to this question must be qualified, because although sustainable tourism has been in the spotlight in recent years, and is increasingly popular, over-tourism has not disappeared. Many territories have witnessed significant peaks in visitor numbers over the last two months. Destinations have therefore decided to set up various initiatives to better distribute tourist flows in space and time. The aim is to find solutions to the occasional peaks in visitor numbers and not to halt the activity which makes a major contribution to many areas throughout the world.