Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad?

Leading researcher forecasts 'beginning of the age of non-tourism' despite industry returning to pre-pandemic highsIt was a prediction nobody wanted to hear. On the main stage of the world's biggest tourism fair, Stefan Gössling, a leading researcher in sustainable transport, had just calmly announced the looming death of the holiday industry."We have already entered the beginning of the age of non-tourism," said Gössling, to an uneasy audience of travel agencies, car rental companies, cruise operators and hoteliers. Continue reading...