Europe leads the way to sustainable travel

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Accommodation for travelers in Bohus, Sweden’s southwest coast.

A crisis like a worldwide pandemic inevitably causes many long-term changes. Governments, businesses, families and individuals re-think the policies and customs they have. Euromonitor, a market research consultancy, has conducted an extensive study on global tourism, and concluded that sustainable travel is … Read >

Bookstores report strong growth for ebooks as people are staying home

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Ebook sales growth at major bookstores and subscription services in April. Source: Publishdrive.

Year 2020 may be remembered as a pandemic year, but it may also be remembered as the year when ebooks made a breakthrough to the mass market in countries where print books dominated reading habits. Just like … Read >

Top 10 most expensive and cheapest cities in the world in 2020

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Image by Teodor Kuduschiev.

Often, travelers like to compare prices of hotels nights and meals they have paid during their last trips, but expats, digital nomads, and other people who are considering a move to another country have to take more costs into account. The Economist Intelligence Unit has published … Read >

The happiest nations in the world are Denmark, Switzerland, and Iceland

It is not easy to measure the level happiness of a person, not to mention the happiness of a whole nation, but the World Happiness Report has done just that. The report, commissioned by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), concludes that in 2016, Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland … Read >