Destination: Denmark
Video: Lars Von Trier to Direct Denmark’s New Tourism Ads
by Eva Holland | 03.04.10 | 2:38 PM ET
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Yahoo! BuzzPhoto You Must See: The Long Bridge to Sweden
by World Hum | 03.02.10 | 12:19 PM ET
iStockPhoto The Oresund Bridge connects Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark
What’s That Smell?
by Paul Lynch | 01.07.10 | 4:48 PM ET
iStockPhoto Paul Lynch explores the intersection of travel and the nose
The Fate of Christiania
by Rick Steves | 12.14.09 | 11:59 AM ET
On conformity and creative spirits in Denmark and beyond
Photo You Must See: The World in Copenhagen
by World Hum | 12.11.09 | 3:06 PM ET
REUTERS/Christian Charisius A large globe sits in Copenhagen’s lit-up central square. The United Nations Climate Change Conference is ongoing in the Danish capital.
The World’s Most Carnivorous Countries
by Michael Yessis | 09.29.09 | 12:11 PM ET
Good posted a clever interactive graphic. The most carnivorous country per capita? Denmark.
Visit Denmark! Knock Somebody Up!
by Eva Holland | 09.16.09 | 5:03 PM ET
Forget about Australia’s “Where the bloody hell are you?” campaign. There’s a new winner in the controversial tourism campaign sweepstakes, and it comes from, of all places, Denmark.
The Danish ad plays like a homemade webcam clip, featuring a young woman who claims to be looking for her baby’s father—a foreign tourist whose name she can’t remember. I’m not totally sure how it’s intended to entice visitors to the country—I don’t think accidental parenthood is on most folks’ dream itineraries—but, predictably, the spot was greeted with indignation and has been removed from VisitDenmark’s YouTube channel. The AP quotes a VisitDenmark representative as saying that it was meant to be “a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her actions.”
Of course, the ad didn’t get yanked before copies, parodies and responses started popping up. Here’s a re-posting of the original:
European Flesh and the American Prude
by Rick Steves | 09.08.09 | 12:54 PM ET
Alexandra Beier/Reuters Exploring Europe, exploring travel as a political act
Immigrants, Treasure Your Heritage—and Melt
by Rick Steves | 08.26.09 | 11:43 AM ET
Exploring Europe, exploring travel as a political act
Six Great Summer Music Festivals in Europe
by Ben Keene | 07.14.09 | 9:37 AM ET
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Headed overseas this summer? Ben Keene surveys music festivals from Budapest to Stockholm.
Five Best Mood-Matching Museums
by World Hum | 04.02.09 | 9:25 AM ET
(c) Sam Buxton, courtesy Kinetica What kind of art do you feel like today? Hayden Foreman-Smith knows where to go to match any mood.
A Danish Isle Weans Itself From Fossil Fuels—and Flourishes
by Joanna Kakissis | 07.09.08 | 9:33 AM ET
Located in the Kattegat, an arm of the North Sea, Samsų has 22 villages, 4,300 residents and a renewable energy cooperative that’s drawing accolades from around the world. The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert visited the scenic isle and described how Samsų, which uses clean sources such as wind turbines and biomass for fuel, became an exporter of renewable energy in about a decade. Way to go green, and so beautifully.
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* Can ‘Burning Man’ Go Green?
Copenhagen’s Christiania in Jeopardy
by Jim Benning | 07.23.07 | 12:37 PM ET
Like many visitors to Copenhagen, I wandered around the hippie experiment in utopia called Christiania a number of years ago. I bought the local newspaper, strolled “Pusher Street” and passed off-the-grid homes, struck that such a place existed in a major European city. But Christiania’s future is now in doubt. “The current conservative government is feeling the pressure from developers to ‘normalize’ Christiania,” writes Rick Steves in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle.
Experts to Americans: Easy On the Tipping!
by Jim Benning | 05.21.07 | 8:11 AM ET
Sure, in some countries a generous tip for great service is appropriate. But not everywhere. “In Japan, for instance, tipping is viewed as insulting,” writes Rosemary McClure in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. “In other countries, it’s considered disrespectful to hand a tip to a waiter.” How to avoid being the ugly American shelling out too much money in tips overseas?
Kurt Andersen on Denmark’s “Touristic Outliers”
by Michael Yessis | 05.18.06 | 12:05 PM ET
Legendary magazine editor and Turn of the Century author Kurt Andersen has a piece in the May issue of Travel + Leisure on Denmark. It’s a journey into the cultural fringes of a place popularly thought of as “sensible, reasonable, healthy, tidy, virtuous, nice.”
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