Travel Newsletter: 9 August 2024
Gorizia in Italy and Slovenia, overtourism and tourist traps, places to visit in the USA, Southern Sardinia, and more travel reads.
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Travel reads
• Overtourism and overcrowded European cities
“Even in the most popular European cities, where overtourism is a problem, there are plenty of charming areas to escape the crowds.”
• Twin border towns reunited in Italy and Slovenia for capital of culture
“Gorizia was split down the middle in 1947 between Italy and Slovenia. Next year the two towns will come together again as European capital of culture.”
• 52 unexpected places to go in the USA
“We find trip inspiration in every state (plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.), from sprawling rainforests and contemporary art museums to Black-owned wineries and award-winning restaurants.”
• Why tourist traps can be a good thing, actually
“In the just-published 'The New Tourist,' writer Paige McClanahan upends common tourism tropes.”
• Wild, beautiful and overlooked: Southern Sardinia is ready to share its essence (archive)
• Don’t forget to like and follow
"New booking sites are connecting travel influencers with their followers to take trips all over the world. But should you go? I headed to Yosemite with an influencer and her fangirls to find out."
• ‘Worst season ever’: How things got ugly on Greece’s ‘Instagram island’
• Why some people are paying to be left on a desert island—alone
• El Fonoll, the medieval village in Spain where clothes are banned
• Goa passes bill to regulate beach shacks on public beaches
• Our favorite 10 beaches from 20 years of travel
🛏️ Accommodation
• The best cheap hotel chains in the USA – 2024 (via Nomadico)
• Yangshuo boutique hotel to spearhead new Chinese heritage hospitality brand Aurua (archive)
“Yangshuo Sugar House, with its reminders of past as a working sugar mill, is the model for a new brand of boutique heritage hotels in China.”
💻 Nomad news
• ‘Tourists have no power to transform Barcelona’: Is rage at digital nomads misdirected?
🚆Train travel
• How high-speed rail transformed Japan
• Italy launches summer tourist train from Milan to Tuscany's coast
✈️ Air travel
• The race to become the world’s first document-free airport
• How this Australian took on an airline — and won — after it lost his luggage
• It could soon be illegal for airlines to charge families to sit together
• The accidental collector: A peek into the history of SIA in a three‑storey home
“Dr Ong Pang Yeow owns more than 2,500 pieces of Singapore Airlines (SIA) memorabilia in his three-storey house in Kent Ridge.”
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[Bitexco Tower, Ho Chi Minh City (@nomadicnotes).]
James Clark – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.