Quotulatiousness » Tourism

Preview of the CN Tower Edgewalk experience

Nicholas — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:25:21 +0000

H/T to Michael O’Connor Clarke for the link.

Photography: locals versus tourists

Nicholas — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:27:27 +0000

By way of BoingBoing, here’s a Flickr collection showing the different photo locations chosen by locals and tourists for many cities. Toronto doesn’t show as much difference as many other cities do:

Blue dots are by locals, red dots are by tourists, and yellow dots could be by either (not enough information to determine).

According to the Danish tourist agency, Danish women are easy

Nicholas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:25:50 +0000

The Economist reports on a badly thought-out (and recently withdrawn) tourism-boosting campaign by VisitDenmark:

The film, shot in video-diary style, purports to be the work of a Danish woman with a baby: she says that the child is the result of a one-night stand with a foreign visitor and that she hopes the father will see the video and contact her.

It’s nicely acted, gently affecting, completely fake and unintentionally hilarious. This official advertisement for Denmark, meant to be “a good and sweet story about a mature, responsible woman who lives in a free society and shoulders the responsibility of her actions”, instead conveys the message that if you come to Denmark, you can sleep with attractive locals. Is that really the remit of the tourism agency?