The rarest of holiday experiences these days? It’s not a five-star hotel or yacht hire. With an estimated 80 per cent of the world impacted by light pollution, it’s escaping to a place where the skies are blanketed in stars.
“We have seen an increase in people interested in dark sky tourism,” says Susan Serven of DarkSky International, a non-profit organisation that seeks to protect our night-time skyscape. “It’s good for people, good for economic development, good for the planet. It has positive impacts on wildlife, biodiversity and human health. It also maintains our human connection to the night sky, which every generation before ours has had access to.”
