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Local travelling with Knok
We love to travel locally. We love to discover local restaurants and bakeries. We love to live like locals. And that’s what the Local Travel Movement aims at doing. There is a difference between a tourist and a traveller. And the concept of home swap is just apt for this discussion. At first, the idea of [...]
Soria Moria Hotel joins the Local Travel Movement
We are very excited that Soria Moria have partnered up with the Local Travel Movement! The Local Travel Movement is a not for profit platform started by people from companies founded on a passion for Local Travel and commitment to Local Travel values. Why not take a moment to check out their website and read [...]
Linking Cultures Through Sustainable (and Local) Tourism in Celebration of World Tourism Day
Do you believe travel can be a force for good? Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNTWO) has celebrated World Tourism Day on September 27th to bring awareness to the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political, and economic value. “World Tourism Day is an opportunity to reflect on the importance of [...]
San Miguel del Bala: Community based tourism promoting Local Travel
San Miguel del Bala is a small community of 55 families. They are the keepers of the Madidi National Park and of the sophisticated 500 year old Tacana culture. For years, the Tacanas learned to survive in the harsh but rich Bolivian Amazon. They have kept their traditions alive, and have found in responsible ecotourism [...]
GoMio.com – Creating Tools for Travelers to Become Locals
I became CEO of GoMio.com approximately 14 months ago, and noticed immediately that our company was missing the most important aspect of travel – the transformative and impactful experience of interacting with locals. Indeed, GoMio does offer travelers the opportunity to find the best possible accommodations at hostels around the world, but I was not [...]
Local Travel = Staying in apartments?
In the last 3 years since we started Spotted by Locals, I’ve been outside my hometown Amsterdam for about 14 months altogether. We (Sanne and myself) meet all our writers (“Spotters”) in Europe in person, so fortunately that requires a lot of traveling! When we did our first 3 month tour to 20 large Europe [...]
Bringing responsible tourism to the hills of Darjeeling, India
Set against the jaw-droppingly gorgeous backdrop of the snow-covered Himalayas and surrounded by the phenomenal forests and streams of rural Darjeeling, India, the little village of Mineral Spring is a community knit together by strong cultural values that have made it a model of sustainable growth. Two of these values are commitments to traditional agriculture [...]