#US Tourism

[todayontumblr]

#today on tumblr #georgia #usa #atlanta #athens #savannah #cumberland island #peaces #travel #US cities #us tourism #photography #say cheese #providence canyon state park #blue ridge mountains

[beingjellybeans]

LA adventures for frugal travelers: how to experience the city for less

Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, is a city of endless possibilities. Known for its beautiful beaches, vibrant cultural scene, and diverse cuisine, LA offers something for everyone. From the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to the laid-back beach culture of Venice, there are countless attractions to explore in this sprawling metropolis. Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a…

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#airbnb #exploring the USA #griffith park #hiking in LA #hollywood tour #LA beach #LA on a budget #museums in LA #santa monica beach #shake shack #things to do in LA #umami burger #US tourism #where to eat in LA #where to go in LA

[rabid-transcendentalist]

Mexico when Texans have to start crossing the border for a better life good heathcare

#this meme requires some suspension of disbelief because people were already going to Mexico for their heathcare prior to this event #this is part of a phenomenon called medical tourism #which exists in part because its cheeper for someone who is in need of medical care in the US #to book a flight to another country #receive medical care in that country #and travel back #than it is for them to receive medical care in the US #anyway #great job #mexico #reproductive rights #abortion

[lambentplume]

Maui Fires & How to Support Relief Efforts

(Posted on 8/10/23) Hi, I'm Jae and my family is from Lāhainā. I watched my hometown burn down this week. The fires caused immeasurable loss in my community so I'd like to spread awareness of the situation as well as provide links to support local organizations directly assisting survivors. I'm pretty sure most of my following is Not local so I'm writing with intent to inform people outside the situation, but if you're reading this and happen to have family in the affected area that isn't accounted for, message me and I can send you the links to the missing persons tracking docs + more localized info!! If you'd like to skip down to how to help and follow community organizations, scroll to the bottom of the post after the image.

Earlier this week, Hurricane Dora passed south of the Hawaiian Islands, bringing strong wind gusts that caused property damage across the islands. On Tuesday August 8, high winds caused sparks to fly in the middle of Lāhainā town, knocking out power lines and immediately igniting drought-ridden grasses. The fire spread quickly and destroyed the entire center of town, the harbor, and multiple neighborhoods including Hawaiian Homes (housing specifically for Native Hawaiians), parts of Lahainaluna, basically all of Front Street, and low-income housing units. There is only one public road in and out of town, and after a very hectic evacuation period that road has been mostly closed off except to emergency responders, thus it is extremely difficult for anyone to leave town to get help. The nearest hospital is 20 miles away in Wailuku, and most grocery stores in town have burnt down.

As of Thursday, August 10, over 1,000 acres have been burned and 271 structures (including homes, schools, and other community gathering places) have been destroyed. Cell service is still extremely spotty, many of the surrounding neighborhoods deemed safe for evacuees are still without utilities. There are currently confirmed 53 deaths but that number is expected to increase as search-and-rescue efforts continue. Countless families have been displaced and many have lost the homes they lived in for generations. Places of deep historical significance have been reduced to ash, including the gravesites of Hawaiian royalty, the old Lāhainā courthouse where items of cultural significance were stored, and Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center. To add further context: Lāhainā has a population of about 13,000 residents. EVERYONE I know has been impacted in some way--at best forced to evacuate, at worst their house was burnt to the foundation, they cannot find a loved one, etc. I'm still trying to track down family members and it's been over two days. My neighbors down the street had homes last week and now many don't have ANYTHING. The hotels are taking in residents (tourists are also being STRONGLY urged to leave so that locals can recover). Without open access to the rest of the island, Lāhainā residents are now dependent on whatever people had in their homes already as well as disaster relief efforts coming in, but it's been difficult to organize and mobilize due to the location + conditions. People who have made it out are in shelters where no blankets or medicine were provided. Friends and acquaintances from neighbor islands are preparing aid to send over. Community response has been incredible, but the toll on the town has been immeasurable. My parents were desperately walking through town yesterday, my mom sounded absolutely hollow talking about it on the phone with me. It's horrifying. Below is a satellite map with data from the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System showing the impacted areas from the past week; all of the red blotches were on fire at some point in the last three days.

Here are ways you can help:

If you have the means to donate:

Here are three donation sites verified by Maui Rapid Response, which also lists FAQs for people who are wondering about next steps.

Hawaiʻi Community Foundation - Maui Strong Fund accepts international credit cards. Maui United Way

Maui Mutual Aid Non-monetary ways to support:

If you know anyone who is planning to travel to ANY Hawaiian island, not just Maui, tell them to cancel their trip. Resources are extremely limited as is. Advocate for climate change mitigation efforts locally, wherever that is for you. The fire was exacerbated by drought conditions that have worsened due to climate change.

Lastly, remember that these are people's HOMES that burned, and Native Hawaiian cultural artifacts that have been lost. Stop thinking of Hawaiʻi (or any "tourist destination" location, really) as an "escape" or a "paradise." If that's the only way you recognized my home... I'm glad I got your attention somehow, but I would ask that you challenge that perspective and prioritize local and native voices. For transparency, I don't currently live in Lāhainā, I've been following efforts from Honolulu. My parents and brother have been updating me and I've been following friends and family who are doing immediate response work. I'm doing my best to find reliable and current sources, but if I need to update something, please let me know. If you're going to try to convince me that tourism is necessary for our recovery, news flash ***IT'S NOT***!

Thanks for reading.

#please feel free to reblog! i don't know how tagging works here anymore! #maui fires #officially reported death count increased WHILE I WAS WRITING THE POST btw. this is bonkers. #if you want to start tourism discourse in my inbox you have to donate the cost of a plane ticket and send a screenshot to me #i have sources at the ready btw. i'd say don't try me but i mean my hometown could use a couple hundred bucks!!

[breathtakingdestinations]

San Juan Island - Washington - USA (by Don McCrady)

#San Juan Island #WA #Washington #US #USA #United States #North America #Orca #Whale #Nature #Landscape #Outdoor #Photography #Traveling #Travelling #Travel #Tourism #Holiday #Urlaub #Reisen

[frobby]

list of haikyuu character with actual real world jobs

-oikawa (accepted player for san juan Argentina )

-hinata (accepted player for sesi san paulo + japanese tourism ambassador for sendai japan)

-kageyama (japanese tourism ambassador for sendai japan)

-kuroo (appointed as special chief of japan's volleyball association's PR department)

#irl volleyball just loves using haikyuu as promotion for the sport and i love it #cuz thats really what haikyuu is all about getting people to play volleyball #and if the silly little anime men make people pay attention to irl volleyball then it has served its purpose #who do yall think will get a real job next #also if i missed anyone let me know #or if i got any facts wrong #haikyuu!! #haikyuu #hq #hinata shouyou #kageyama tobio #oikawa tooru #kuroo tetsurou #**I forgot to add but hinata has actually been a tourism icon twice but the first time it was as hina bird so i didnt include it #Idk about kageyama tho #I also forgot to put that sesi san paulo is a brazilian team oopsie #Figure it out man

[it-begins-with-rain]

Things you could never get away with in a public school in this day and age:

My kindergarten teacher (who was the coolest teacher on the planet) had us do construction work. He cut all the wood and brought it in, would mark where a nail should go, and come back around after we were done and make sure everything was nailed in all the way.

The playhouse ended up in a local playground, where kids could enjoy it whenever they wanted.

Other things my kindergarten teacher did:

STEM: Kept a lawn mower engine (just the engine, not the blades) on a table and let us take it apart and put it back together at will (he'd also teach us what every part was and what it did).

Crime: Showed us how to make lockpicks to break into the first grade classroom and steal some of their learn to read books because he was bored that week and wanted to teach us.

Life Skills: Showed up the first day of class with 2 salmon he caught that morning and taught us how to gut and cook them.

Non-Binary/LGBT Rights: Would come in full drag as "Mrs. Wright" and teach us lessons he thought we'd take better from a matronly figure-- but also demanded everyone show full respect to the nice lady with the beard (he was not non-binary or trans, but wanted us to learn to accept people for who they are no matter what).

Archaeology: The kindergarten had a separate playground from the main school, and he buried plastic stegosaurus bones in the sand box, made a grid with string, and gave us paint brushes to conduct a full archaeological dig. We had to draw where we found anything so a thorough record was kept.

Charity: He would throw random "Learn to cook" or "Pot Luck" days in every couple of weeks, where we'd take turns teaching everyone how we made some family favorite meal (well, the parent who came along or gave him the recipe would). A way to subtly take care of the less fortunate students, some of whom rarely got hot, nutritious meals at home.

If there was ever a person who deserved the Teacher of the Year award, it was him.

#he eventually quit teaching to run tourism and hunting businesses more but always checked on his old students #and tragically he passed away in the early 2000s after a long illness #but his wife still reaches out sometimes to say hi to his old students #everyone one of us remembers him with absolute love

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

So-Ho takes Nigeria on Mother's Day & w/the deception of duper's delight tried to SPIN the reality of 2 scamming grifters into a narrative that it's actually appropriate for her NOT to be mothering her caucasian invisibles in America because it's better for her to be at HOME in the MOTHERland. Only a master manipulator like THE Meghan Markled could contort so many lies into such a stupid explanation for her grifting lifestyle. 🤡

"...and although we are missing our children----we are missing our babies..."

"...it feels very appropriate to be in the MOTHERLAND..."

"...and amongst family..."

"...we cant wait to come back"

#nigerian scam #megxit #spare us #worldwide privacy tour #like a spare #nigerian scammers #misan harriman is a fraud #meghan markle is a bully #meghan markle is a liar #meghan markle is a fraud #voetsek meghan #she markled 🇳🇪 #ArcheFRAUD #inGRIFTus #inFLICTus #grifters gonna grift #dumb prince #poverty tourism #it's all about MeMeMe #soho house takes nigeria #the invisibles #master manipulator #meghan markle is delusional

[annajewelsphotography]

Savannah - Georgia - USA (by Anna Jewels (@earthpeek))

https://www.instagram.com/earthpeek/

#Savannah #Georgia #US #USA #United States #North America #Me #Nature #Landscape #Outdoor #Flowers #Photography #Travelling #Traveling #Travel #Tourism #Holiday #Urlaub #Reisen #Vacation

[mapsontheweb]

Number of visitors to United States National Parks in 2022.

by @DevinMLea

#maps #twittersourced #DevinMLea #us #national parks #tourism #2022

[respectthepetty]

BL is definitely Thailand's soft power because this year we got the BL ad for Sripatum University, skincare company Devonte296 creating an entire BL series The Promise to promote its products, and the government-sponsored series Y Journey: Stay Like a Local to encourage (queer) tourism.

Now we have the private beach hotel Demi Beach Concept releasing a two-episode BL, Love on Lo, just to advertise its property.

And it has color coding.

Step by Step was right and so was Bump Up Business, but I can't even be mad.

Whatever pays the bills and gets us marriage equality.

Amen.

#love on lo #it was a two-episode ad #and I ain't mad at it #color coded boys in love #the colors mean things #and it means we gonna get marriage equality in 2024 #companies are putting money into this #and subbing it for international viewers #they want our queer dollars in tourism #give us marriage equality first!

[existencebringsonlypain]

this is intended to be, like, if a stranger on the street you were having a conversation with called you love.

think of any random person. I know this is dependent on context, but I don't want everyone to be hitting "else" just because if they're really nice they'd be okay with it. If any typical person you were chatting with called you "love", how would you react?

#despite how it sounds this isn't actually a personal opinion poll #it's more of a location thing #i'd personally feel like they're being condescending. it's not the kinda thing people say in florida #i'd say in southeast USA in general‚ but i've come to realize our tourism kinda messes with our culture and makes it different #but i know in some places that's just a thing people say. and some places that's a genuine compliment #curious as to the distribution #poll #polls #existenceunrelateds #actually maybe it's me. maybe it's florida. #but a LOT of those affectionate names other places use so iften come across as insulting to me #like “dear” and “love” and such #“miss” is VERY weird. don't call me that. i'm visibly a minor. #it always feels kinda creeper-y when‚ like‚ teachers call out names and say “Miss A----” instead of just my name #but i can never say anything bc i know that's a totally notmal and even respectful thing to do with kids in other places

[ben-the-hyena]

Twitter and Tumblr about completely changing Ariel's ethnia and race in the live action adaptation : "die mad, fiction is fiction, and her origins don't matter in the storyline anyway, who cares where Ariel is from as long as she sings ? Anyone arguing is a racist because life is literally black and white and so are opinions on adaptations, color washing doesn't exist you're just a bigot"

Twitter and Tumblr now that Disney casted an actress who is more native Hawaiian than they ever will be but is not "dark enough" for playing Nani therefore "not a real Hawaiian and white washing" despite she is not white

#personally I won't even watch this movie because I boycott live action remakes but the double standard is pathetic #'i wished Nani looked like Nani' oh I thought they were just cartoons and those who wanted Ariel to look like Ariel were racist ? #because for what I know the Hawaiian aspect of the story (dealing with tourism racism) will be respected with a native in the role then #but omg she DARES being lighter ! look at this point they never cast an actress who looks like the source material (look at Belle...) #so let us just be glad they took someone of the fitting race without checking a quotat list. so what #so lighter skinned POC/mixed POC are not 'native enough' to you ? pretty racist #like i hate Pepa in Encanto but I remember being frustrated people were mad they DARED depicting ONE light skinned latina #lol #tumblr #twitter #Disney #fandom #hypocrisy #them bastards ! #reaction image #race #the little mermaid #movie #lilo and stitch #ariel #nani #colors #black people #white people #racism #polynesian #it reminds me of people saying they were shocked a white guy was playing a pharaoh. it was Rami Malek who is Egyptian #or complaining they casted an Indian for Jasmine while Aladdin's place is ambiguous and it could be Indo-Persian for what we know

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

now that oceangate have stated they believe those in the submersible are dead, can we please not make posts talking about how the ghosts of all the third-class passengers killed the millionaires on board?

like yes, its a poetic idea, but those passengers you claim to be vengeful ghosts were real people. not only is it likely disrespectful on religious grounds because fun fact, not everone on titanic were white westerners, but it is also just fucking disrespectful to create ghost stories about real people who died during a tragedy.

the titanic tragedy was a real thing that happened; the people who died were real people. unfortunately, its one of, if not the most romanticised shipwreck where many real life people have mischaracterised for so long that this is how we now remember them. i mean look at j bruce ismay who wasnt the money-hungry, corner-cutting, evil man hes been made out to be.

how about we not mischaracterise any more folks? and we not create ghost stories about the real people who died?

its really not that difficult to show compassion and respect to the dead.

#titanic #titanic wreck #titan #titan sub #oceangate #oceangate expeditions #tw death #tw mass death #stockton rush #tourism #dark tourism #shipwrecks #capitalism #titanic tourism #titanic tourism submarine #us coast guard #coast guard

[pratchettquotes]

And now Koom Valley stretched away ahead of Vimes, and he could see why he hadn't made plans. You couldn't make plans for Koom Valley. It'd laugh at them. It would push them away, like it pushed away roads.

"Of course, you're seeing it at its best at this time of year," said Cheery.

"By 'best' you mean--?" Vimes prompted.

"Well, it's not actually trying to murder us, sir. And there's the birds. And when the sun's right, you get some wonderful rainbows."

Terry Pratchett, Thud!

#samuel vimes #cheery littlebottom #thud! #discworld #terry pratchett #koom valley #tourism #adventure tourism #peak season #seasonal #plans #strategy #chaos #birds #rainbows #landscape #at its best #it's not actually trying to murder us #no one plans for koom valley

[breathtakingdestinations]

Capitol Reef National Park - Utah - USA (by James Marvin Phelps)

#Capitol Reef National Park #Utah #US #USA #United States #North America #Nature #Landscape #Outdoor #View #Stars #Milky Way #Photography #Traveling #Travel #Tourism #Holiday #Urlaub #Reisen