Local accommodation
Outdoor Albania’s view on local travel
Laura Payne, co-founder of Outdoor Albania and local travel activist, believes that local traveling is about meeting and connecting with the locals and experiencing their culture, as well as about preserving nature and bringing economical benefits to those who need it most. Six years ago, Laura paid her first visit to Albania and directly fell […]
Top five picks for community-based tourism accommodation in sub-equatorial Africa
Nothing beats the experience of staying with locals and supporting their local communities. The WHL Group puts forward here five of its favourite community-based accommodation initiatives in Africa. Liziwes Bed & Breakfast in Cape Town, South Africa As a long but growing list of travellers has already discovered, little rivals the cultural experience of staying […]
How to travel like a local? Start by sleeping like one
Wake up where every local does: in a home. At onefinestay we believe that’s exactly where your day should begin. You should be inspired by the place you’re staying in, live your day just as someone who lives there does. For us, living like a local means that there is not one rule for locals […]
Carrying on the local travel tradition in Namibia
It could be said that local travel made me what I am today. At the very least, it brought me to where I am today, which has had a huge impact on who I am. Many years ago, at a time in my life when I was searching for something, I travelled to Namibia. Reality […]
Do as the Umbrians do! Travel local in the Green Heart of Italy.
Situated in the heart of Italy, Umbria is one of the smallest regions in our country. About 70% of the territory is the gentle rolling hills that have made it famous. But it also offers a great variety of other geological characteristics within the gentle landscape – fertile valleys, mountain chains, plateaus and plains that […]
Local travel: choice of accommodation or state of mind?
At PocketCultures we’re very pleased to be a partner of the newly launched Local Travel Movement. The interest this initiative has attracted, even before launch, is a good indication that local travel is a growing and global trend, albeit one still in its defining stages. For now it’s defined around a loose set of values which the […]
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. […]
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 […]