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The Art of Slow Travel Slow travel isn’t about moving at a snail’s pace – it’s about traveling with intention. It’s not measured in miles or ticks checked off on a list of must-sees, but in meaningful moments and deeper connections. In a world obsessed with speed, instant gratification, and “seeing it all,” slow travel invites us to pause, …
Community-based travel puts people – not profits – at the centre of the travel experience. It’s a model of tourism built on respect, equity, and meaningful exchange, where the local community leads the way and directly benefits from your presence. Rather than staying in chain hotels or joining mass-market tours run by foreign companies, community-based tourism …
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Visit Italy in the autumn and discover a slower pace of life as the crowds thin out and the hillsides shift to copper, burnished reds and golds. It’s the harvest season: olives being gently handpicked or raked off the trees, chestnuts roasting in mountain villages, grapes gathered and brought to the presses, as vendemmia celebrations approach. Time …
This article was originally published in The Green Travel Guide. For many, the idea of going on an African safari is a bucket-list travel experience. Watching a lion pride at dawn, following the rumble of elephants across the savanna, or witnessing the great wildebeest migration—these are moments that linger in memory for a lifetime. Yet …
Read more “The Good, the Bad, and the Sustainable Safari: A Greener Way to Safari in Africa”
Roadmap to 2030 – Green Travel Initiatives from Thailand to the Nordics If 2024 was the warning shot, 2025 is the year destinations started hard-coding sustainability into tourism. From Southeast Asia’s route certifications to the Nordics’ regional plan—and the EU’s new strategy in the works—here’s what’s changing and how to travel better right now. Thailand’s …
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[This article originally featured in The Green Travel Guide – for the full article click here] Hej hej! This week we’re heading north—into the land of fjords, forests, islands, and cosy culture. For curated sustainable and slow travel itineraries focused on green stays in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, download your copy of the full Slow Scandinavia …
[This Article originally featured in The Green Travel Guide. For the full article visit here.] Early last summer I spent time in Athens staying next to the ruins of Hadrian’s Library and the Roman Agora. The heat was brutal. Intense 40C+ heatwave days. We would rise at dawn, venture out early, then spend most of …
Read more “Wildfire Summer – What it means for how we travel, and for the planet”
[Article originally featured on The Green Travel Guide] Home to just over 7 million people, swathed in ancient myths, known for its storytellers, musicians and writers, famous for its Guinness, traditional music and the ‘craic’, the island of Ireland makes for the perfect slow travel experience. Island life happens at its own pace outside of …
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[This article was original published in The Green Travel Guide – subscribe for weekly slow travel stories, destination guides and recommendations. See The Green Travel Guide for access to the full article (including slow itineraries, stays, eats & more).] “Istanbul is a book that is never finished; it is a novel that keeps writing itself, …
Read more “Postcards from Istanbul: Slow Travels in the Queen of Cities”
For two days, we’ve drifted past schoolchildren waving from grassy banks and coconut groves, watched fishermen untangle their nets at dawn, and played endless games of travel backgammon on a rickety little table on the deck, as the kettuvallam houseboat glides through Kerala’s sleepy backwaters, greeted by kingfisher calls and the gently bobbing palms that …