De Nederlandse, Duitse en Deense Waddeneilanden staan op de dertigste plaats van de lijst ’52 places to go in 2019′ van de New York Times. Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer en Lauwersoog worden expliciet genoemd:
“Holland’s Lauwersmeer National Park started offering dark-sky safaris in 2018 and will open a Seal Rescue Center in 2019 that lets visitors rehabilitate and release two native seal species, followed by an ultra-modernist Wadden World Heritage Center to open in 2020. Dutch campground resorts like Beleef Lauwersoog offer excursions to nearby Schiermonnikoog island and have expanded lodging options with new barrel-shaped sleeping pods and refurbished overwater bunkers, once used by duck hunters, on remote swaths of the North Sea.”
