In a new study, researchers found a significant reason why many people travel to Antarctica is to socialize—to celebrate anniversaries, honeymoons or to spend time with family for a holiday—rather than because of a particular ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2022
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To help Hawaiʻi's tourism industry recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa suggests a potentially under-utilized form of revenue that visitors are actually willing to pay ...
Economics & Business
Feb 21, 2022
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Communal farmers and butterfly guides are hoping for a rebound in the number of monarch butterflies—and tourists—at their wintering grounds in central Mexico after a bad year for both last year.
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday for training ahead of his flight to the International Space Station on a Russian-operated spacecraft.
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2021
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A volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma that has been erupting for six weeks spewed greater quantities of ash from its main mouth Sunday, a day after producing its strongest earthquake to date.
Environment
Oct 31, 2021
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In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters.
Environment
Oct 27, 2021
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Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2021
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The first space tourism mission by Elon Musk's SpaceX blasted off from Florida on Wednesday and the four crew members—a billionaire and three other Americans—have already seen more than 25 sunsets and sunrises.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2021
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Tom Cruise got a sneak preview of what it's like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2021
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Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale, unearthed over a decade ago in the country's Western Desert, is that of a previously unknown species. The creature, an ancestor of the modern-day whale, ...
Ecology
Sep 14, 2021
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