Journal
Reports, analyses and features from all 195 countries - the journalism behind the journeys.
The Way In Without Paying
Nearly every major public museum has a mechanism for getting in free, and almost none advertise it. The four models, why they follow the funding rather than the wealth, and the arithmetic that decides whether a city pass is worth buying.
One Bed Per Night
Europe spent twenty years closing its night trains and a decade reopening some of them. Both decisions were rational on the numbers of their time, which is why the network that came back is the shape it is.
The Lever a Planning Committee Already Has
A city cannot cap arrivals without a border. It can cap beds with a planning committee — and a growing number have. What a bed cap reaches, what it misses entirely, and where the value moves when it lands.
Four Instruments and a Housing Market
Registration, night caps, zone refusals and principal-residence rules. The anatomy of short-let regulation, why an unlicensed listing is the guest’s risk rather than the host’s, and what an enforcement action does to a booking.
The Fee That Was Never About the Money
Venice became the first major city to charge day visitors for entering it. The amount is trivial, the revenue is small, and the residents are unconvinced. What the scheme actually produced was advance notice of who is coming — the one number the city never had.