Posts by briannemiers

Tourism On The Rebound In Nepal

by Brianne Miers » 18 August 2017 at 7:09 pm

Badri Rai is celebrating some good news this month. Nepal’s Department of Immigration just announced that foreign tourist arrivals shot up 28 percent in the first half of 2017 – 460,304 tourists arrived via air in the first six months of 2017, compared to 359,672 in the first half of 2016. This is a big […]

The Perils of a Tourism Boom: Palawan’s Popularity Problem

by Brianne Miers » 23 February 2017 at 9:56 pm

Palawan’s Popularity Problem: An Interview with Photographer Duncan Murrell This past fall (autumn for those outside North America), I was lured to Palawan, a culturally and ecologically rich archipelago in the Philippines made up of nearly 2,000 islands. Seeing the name pop up repeatedly on “world’s best islands” and “world’s best beaches” lists in recent […]