Volcano tourism risks rising, but it's easy to stay safe. More and more tourists are visiting volcanoes, and seeing an eruption in real life can be an incredibly powerful experience.

The risks of volcano tourism are the focus of a paper published by the UK’s Royal Geographical Society. Author Amy Donovan, a geographer at the University of Cambridge, ...

"There's not really a safe way to do volcano tourism on active volcanoes," Gregg says. "It's a risk." White Island had such a risk as volcanic activity there was active.

Warning against 'volcano tourism' risks. 20 December 2018. Share Save. Sean Coughlan. BBC News. Share Save. Getty Images.

For a local perspective on Kilauea, I turned to Richard Sullivan, author of several guidebooks on Hawaii. He lives 7 miles from the volcanic eruption and says he has zero concerns about his safety.

Some volcano tourism veers close to disaster or dark tourism. In 2010, 353 people died and more than 400,000 people lost their homes when Indonesia ’s Mount Merapi erupted.

VIK, Iceland (AP) — An Icelandic volcano brought much of the world's air travel to a halt. And then it brought the world to Iceland. Few outside this island nation had heard of Eyjafjallajokull ...

More and more tourists are visiting volcanoes, and seeing an eruption in real life can be an incredibly powerful experience.

A report from the Royal Geographical Society warns of the growing risks caused by "volcano tourism". Emergency authorities in countries such as Iceland now have to contend with the arrival of ...

Iceland is home to 32 active volcanic sites , and its history is punctuated with eruptions, some of them catastrophic. The 1783 eruption of Laki spewed a toxic cloud over Europe, killing tens of ...

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