Barcelona is a city facing enormous tourism pressure. This has encouraged a series of measures to control tourism, including restricting Airbnb (due to be banned completely by 2028), increasing the tourism tax and banning pub crawls. In common with cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona is trying to adopt a placemaking approach to tourism, rather than place marketing. Tourism policy is orientating towards improving the quality of life for residents, rather than attracting more and

If you want to get away from it all, there are few better places than the middle of the Baltic sea. Bornholm, a tiny Danish island closer to Sweden, Germany or Poland than it is to Denmark, is the perfect rural tourism getaway. But the pressure for rural and remote areas to reinvent themselves as new centres of creativity and knowledge development is also palpable in Bornholm. As the Visit Bornholm website underlines “you can hardly move on Bornholm without meeting an artis

The news that the UK is attempting to gain UNESCO intangible heritage of humanity status for cask beer (yes, the warm stuff from the pub) might be a surprise for some. But recently a petition was launched to protect the “historic and traditional serving method” that was “unique to the UK”, the Guardian reports. A drop of the warm stuff Lager-style beers dominate the global market, and these are invariably served cold - even ice-cold. In fact the trend in recent rears has been

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