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Stories, investigations and conversations about travel, places, people and the forces shaping our world. ExplWorld goes beyond the postcard — from overtourism and geopolitics to remote destinations, culture, nature and the realities behind travel.

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  • S1 · E2
    Thursday · 15 min

    The Overtourism Ledger

    Venice charges day-trippers. Bali collects a visitor levy. Kyoto redirects tourists away from overcrowded transport. Bhutan limits tourism through price. But do these measures actually solve overtourism? In this episode of ExplWorld, we look at what these destinations are really trying to manage — crowding, infrastructure strain, environmental pressure and the concentration of visitors in a handful of famous places. We also ask a bigger question: how do you actually measure whether an overtourism policy works? Because fewer tourists is not always the goal. Sometimes success simply means making a destination more livable for the people who call it home.

  • S1 · E1
    Tuesday · 42 min

    Ebola Without a Vaccine: Inside the DRC's Largest Outbreak

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is fighting the largest Ebola outbreak in its history — caused by Bundibugyo virus, a species with no licensed vaccine and no licensed treatment. Six thousand confirmed cases in fifteen weeks, an armed conflict at the epicenter, and a world that had prepared for a different strain. In this episode, we go through what the numbers say, which institution stands behind each of them, and where the numbers cannot see: how the outbreak began in a gold-mining town in Ituri, why the world's Ebola toolkit doesn't apply here, the day-by-day spread across six provinces, the gamble of deploying Ervebo against a virus it was never licensed for, the war that shapes the response, Uganda's textbook containment — and what all of it means for travelers. Everything in this episode is a verified snapshot as of August 31, 2026. The situation changes daily — check current advisories before you travel. Read the full written story, with every number, its institution and its cutoff date: https://www.explworld.com/journal/ebola-without-a-vaccine Chapters: Where It Began · The Virus the World Did Not Prepare For · From One Health Zone to Six Provinces · The Fastest Ebola on Record · Three Registers, One Epidemic · The Fatality Ratio That Keeps Rising · The Price Health Workers Pay · What the Numbers Cannot See · The Vaccine Gamble · War at the Epicenter · The Money · Uganda: How an Outbreak Ends · The Bans WHO Advised Against · The 42-Day Rule · What We Know and What We Do Not · For Travelers

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