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Have Bucket Lists Destroyed The Art of Travel?

Travel: To go from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length. Journey: Originally a literal unit of time and travel, has become a metaphor for the experience of living life with all its ups and downs. I recently read the Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas and it reminded me that so much of travel now, thanks

Focus on Mainstream Destinations for a More Sustainable Travel World

For 25 years I’ve been promoting travel beyond the bucket list and for 25 years, by and large, I’ve been banging my head against a brick wall. 85% of travel companies just promote the same old same old. If the pandemic could change that, all well and good, but realistically will this happen?  After the

Has tourism failed the camels which made Pushkar Camel Fair a Globally Recognised tourist event?

  It has become a scene as synonymous with India as the Taj Mahal, thousands of Raika camel traders with their immaculate white dhotis and brilliant and intricately tied red turbans, squatting, drinking chai amidst their brilliantly festooned camels. ‘’Every year, some 30,000 camels descend on Pushkar, a small town in the state of Rajasthan,