In the media
“Never Walk Alonely Planet” guidebooks
I just found out about the Never Walk Alonely Planet series, on my favorite blog about urbanism – The Pop-Up City. Never Walk Alonely Planet’s aim is to show insiders and visitors of a city not the highlights, but an insider’s view of a city. I haven’t read one yet, but it looks very interesting [...]
Local Travel in KLM’s inflight magazine
We’ve been actively promoting people to travel like a local since Spotted by Local‘s launch in 2008. Last year, this not for profit website that unites businesses actively promoting Local Travel and travelers was launched. It seems the travel press is starting to get interested too. Last week, KLM’s inflight magazinepublished his article “Stay smart [...]
Going underground
Vicky Baker, freelance journalist and author of www.goinglocaltravel.com/ has written a nice article for Overseas magazine about Local Travel. A small extract: Making a stand against the prescribed, impersonal and well-trodden tour groups is part of a growing trend known as “local travel”. Although some travellers have been putting thes ideas into practice for years, [...]
Planeta.com wins sustainable Tourism Award
It was recently announced one of our active members, Ron Mader from Planeta.com is the winner of a TIES Innovation Award – recognizing individuals who have demonstrated leadership in innovative actions that effectively promote sustainable tourism and bring tangible benefits to communities and conservation. Congratulations to you Ron, and the other winners!
Local Travel – that’s what we’re talking about!
That is literally what I’m talking about below: On Friday 20 August, in my capacity as one of the initiators of the Local Travel Movement, I had a chance to chat about Local Travel with Ron Mader of Planeta.com, a global journal of practical ecotourism and an active Local Travel Movement partner. This online get-together [...]
The Local Travel Movement: How to make your vacations more meaningful
No doubt you’ve heard of the “locavore” movement – the idea of eating food that is grown or raised close to home, sometimes within a 50 or 100 mile radius – but have you heard of the Local Travel Movement? Despite its name, LTM is not, I repeat not, a staycation, the recently coined word [...]
Learn to travel with the locals
As more attention is given to the preservation and development of a destination’s local culture and character, a new website has launched to embrace, develop, promote and establish “Local Travel” as a responsible way forward in tourism. Responsible travel is a living, evolving entity. As the world economy shifts, travel trends tend to adapt to [...]
20 partners already!
We soft-launched the Local Travel website five days ago. With hardly any publicity from our side (we’re planning to do that this week), the news of our launch was spread fast, especially on Twitter. We’ve received quite a few e-mails from organizations who are interested in joining our mission. So far, 20 organizations have signed up [...]
Going local – yesterday and again today
There’s always a lot of banter about travel “back in the day.” Each generation of sojourners loves to lose itself in a halcyon haze, reflecting back on a time gone by when travel was clearly at its best… and then lost to the ever-denser droves of insensitive and irresponsible touring ogres. My golden age was [...]