by Jordan Park | Dec 8, 2020 | Features, Winter 2021
Religious tourism is the oldest form of planned travel in the world. Even now, it remains a prevalent industry, with around 300 to 330 million tourists visiting religious sites every year. Religious tourism has two different forms: visiting a religious site just for...
by Abbey Huch | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog
Once Upon a Time . . . we’ve all heard that before. From Cinderella to Snow White, fairy tales are a huge part of pop culture. However, there are so many wonderful stories across the world that are not very well-known. Each country has tales that have been passed...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2020 | Features, Winter 2020
Where did China get its first cup of tea? Who invented boomerangs in Australia? How did African leopards get their spots? Though there are plenty of factual answers to these questions, we can often learn more about a country from its bedtime stories than its history...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 25, 2020 | Escapades, Winter 2020
Are you in for a ride? Then coast through history with us and discover some of the oldest amusement parks in the world. 1. Bakken (Dyrehavsbakken) • Klampenborg, Denmark • 1583 Dyrehavsbakken, or Bakken for short, is the world’s oldest operational amusement park....
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 9, 2020 | Field Notes, Insights, Winter 2020
Few expect vending machine hunting to be one of the more exciting aspects of tourism—those few who do have probably been to Japan. A few years ago, one of my friends returned home from a visit to Japan. I asked him what he remembered best about the country, and he...
