Archive for March, 2010
The importance of ‘travelling local’ in adventure sports
Article by Alex Narracott, co-founder of muchbetteradventures.com – collecting the world’s local, ethical and action-packed travel choices under one roof. As the local travel movement gathers pace, and debates rage, we thought it was time to wade in with the adventure sports perspective and suggest a few other good reasons why participants have plenty to […]
Some first figures
Some first figures, exactly 2 weeks after our launch: 32 partners! (check the list in the right side column) 850 unique visitors from 89 (!) countries in the world …Interested visitors , because they checked out about 3 pages per visit, and stayed online for an average of 3 minutes. 24 comments, on 12 postings. […]
Are couchsurfing networks legitimate local travel?
When we launched the Local Travel Movement, we stated our belief that Local Travel is greater than the sum of its parts and that the Local Travel Movement could be a rallying point through which, by working together, we can give locals a real voice, engage travellers and develop a dialogue within the travel industry. […]
Go local on Obscura Day!
Obscura Day takes place on 20 March in about 80 cities around the globe. It’s a “day of expeditions, back room tours and hidden treasures in your own hometown” and is organized by the people behind Atlas Obscura, a collaborative project that tries to catalogue odd and ”strange” projects left out of traditional travel guidebooks and […]
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 […]
How do you define ‘local travel’?
This week has seen the launch of LocalTravelMovement.com. It’s aim is to bring together supporters of local travel and it will act as a platform for the debate that is already going on around the web. I was involved in some of the early discussions and it got me thinking about trying to define ‘local […]
Local accommodation networks
There has recently been an emergence of online accommodation networks – websites that enable you to bypass hotels and rent a place to sleep from locals, swap your own for it, or just get it for free in return for being a pleasant guest.
Finding local travel opportunity in South Africa around the World Cup
The clock’s ticking. Every hour we move closer to 4pm South Africa time on 11 June 2010, when the World Cup 2010 kicks off in Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium. The anticipation is palpable, but so is the growing frustration and sometimes anger about the absurd room rates and out-of-focus travel opportunities in a country driven […]
Best local travel websites
www.MyFriendshotel.com has written a nice article subtitled “Get down with the locals”, with a list of websites that, as they write, allow you to meet locals without having to go the whole hog and actually stay with “one of them”. I do not agree that all the websites they mention have guaranteed tips by locals, […]