Pre-social media, there were dinner party destinations. Places people traveled to seemingly just so they could drop the name at the next gathering. Back in the early 2000’s, when I was managing a luxury tour company in London, people would call and tell me they wanted to go to Bhutan. When I asked why, they
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A Brilliant Solution to Combatting Over Tourism Whilst Benefitting Local Communities – Introducing Community Homestay Network Nepal
How do you cope, in these days of gross over tourism, with promoting fabulous new destinations that you discover and want to shout to the world about, but don’t want to see go the same way? I now see destinations I visited some 20-25 years ago which were extraordinary and my heart bleeds at what
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
A barely perceptible ripple on the surface of the water alerted the beady eyes of the multi-tasking Vinod, who promptly dived into the lake, emerging seconds later, his small, wiry brown body glistening with droplets of water as he threw three live fish onto the gangway of our private Chinese Fishing Net to show them
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