The Alps are one of the Earth's biodiversity hotspots, but they're also a tourist magnet, making up 12% of the world tourism. Now the market for Alpine tourism seems to have reached saturation. And ...

The Best of the Alps, a tourism promotion consortium founded more than 40 years ago, recently came to town to remind American travel writers that this is where skiing began over 100 years ago and that ...

Smithsonian magazine’s Megan Gambino, who edited a story on this topic, and environmental scientist Markus Stoffel, who studies how climate change is impacting higher elevations. Both are skiing ...

Nowadays, there are two ways to travel: fast travel—packing as many bucket-list destinations, tourist hotspots and Instagram shots as possible into a short amount of time—and slow travel—journeying ...

Klaus Dodds does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The thin air above cloud level. The views over snow-tipped mountains. The climbs over boulder and scree, and the first gasp of shock jumping into a freezing lake. The Alps leave you breathless in ...