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Mark Stachiew Travels Friday Five |
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Welcome to this week's issue of the Friday Five, a quick collection of the most interesting travel stories that I found in the past week and have shared on Mark Stachiew Travels. This week's stories uncover some new trends, some old ones and some looks towards the future. |
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It's nice to fly first class, but why does everyone have to brag about it online? This frequent flyer slams the nauseating practice. Anyway, the truly rich are flying on private jets! (DMARGE)
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A record numbers of British holidaymakers have gone “champing” – camping in churches – this year. The Airbnb-style service for redundant churches, which was started to bring new people into the empty buildings and help fund their upkeep, is usually very popular with international visitors, but now local people are discovering them. (The Guardian)
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Usually Montreal copies Paris, but this time it's the other way round as the French capital now has an amphibious tourist bus that takes visitors down the Seine. (Reuters)
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While governments around the world reinvent the wheel for digital COVID vaccination documentation, IATA is urging them to adopt the EU's Digital COVID certificate as a standard to follow. (Business Traveller)
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The Independent’s new travel editor is conscious of how tourism can be a force for good – or for evil – when it comes to people and planet. She explains why the British newspaper is pledging to do things differently from now on (The Independent)
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Thanks for reading! If you like what you read, have suggestions of what you'd rather see or just want to drop me a line to tell me what you're up to, write me at [email protected]. And don't forget to forward this newsletter to anyone else that you think would find it interesting.
Have a great weekend!
Mark |
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