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Nomadico issue #126
Where’s Everybody Going?
I sat in on a travel trends data discussion at the Adventure Travel World Summit this week and someone from Amadeus (the backbone of all the booking systems) shared the top cities people are searching for travel in the next three months. In order they are Tokyo, Bangkok, London, NYC, Paris, Seoul, Rome, Dubai, Singapore, and Madrid. Head elsewhere if you want to avoid the crowds.
Norway, Land of Electric Cars
Even though Norway is a major fossil fuel producer, they’ve put the planet first and encouraged everyone to switch to electric vehicles. It’s working, bigtime, according to the latest stats. In September, 96.4 percent of all new cars registered in Norway were purely electric. There are now more EVs on the road there than gas vehicles.
Carbon Removal to Combat Climate Change
With another hurricane hitting Florida and beyond this week, let’s take a look at what travelers can do to make up for the air travel. We can purchase carbon offsets where trees are planted, but many (including me) are skeptical that the money is well spent and is having a concrete result overall. I’m more impressed with what Tomorrow’s Air is doing in trying to actually remove carbon from the atmosphere instead and storing, or neutralizing, it in a way that lasts 500+ years. It feels like a more promising way to offset.
Can Robots Make a Podcast?
If you’d like to hear how a few chatty podcast hosts would handle this newsletter, go check out this recording of Nomadico Issue #125 as interpreted by… a couple of very real-sounding AI characters. This is exciting, creepy, or scary depending on your point of view, but the only mistake they made was pronouncing my name wrong, which plenty of humans have done before as well. It was produced by the very generic-sounding program Google Notebook LM.
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