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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 […]

Travel like a local

The local travel movement is one of the newest sustainable travel sub-categories to surface. Local travel has the same set of values as sustainable travel. Local travel aims to respect and positively impact the local people, culture, environment, and economy. According to the Local Travel Movement website, this movement “was started by a coalition of […]

Local Travel is Slow Travel in Berlin

Berlin is an ideal city for Local Travel – or what we at Slow Travel Berlin would call “Slow Travel”. It’s a distinctive city in both German and European terms, with a unique historical development. In the last century it has endured two world wars and a cold war, which, as you can imagine, creates […]

Top 10 cities photographed by locals

A link to this interesting set of photos on Flickr titled ‘Locals and Tourists‘ has cropped up in a few places now so you may well have already taken a look, if you haven’t it’s worth a glance. The images are maps of cities around the world that show the location of all photos currently […]

A world of misguided tourism campaigns

Blamed for “casting Australia as a nation of tone-deaf people and drawing on dowdy 50-year-old stereotypes“, the latest Tourism Australia campaign hasn’t gone down well on home shores since launching earlier this week. You can watch ‘There’s Nothing like Australia‘ here, but be warned: jabbing yourself in the ears with hot barbecue tongs would bring […]

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 […]

The Local Travel Movement

“The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness […]

Local and Genuine Travel

The vision of the Kumuri team is to encourage meaningful shared learning experiences for people by enabling them to share their facilities and knowledge with each other. While travelling, more and more people are interested in meeting local people and learning about their everyday lives, rather than following commercially organized schedules. Kumuri makes it possible […]

Is local interaction essential for Local Travel?

I recently had friends around for a dinner party. They’re all in the 50-60 age bracket and well travelled, so we talked about an issue raised by the Local Travel Movement. The question I asked them was whether they travelled primarily to meet and interact with local people in the destinations they go to or […]

8 reasons to start traveling like a local!

We started Spotted by Locals in 2008 because we had experienced traveling like a local would be a more fun and more rewarding way of traveling. Since then, we’ve traveled to 25 cities where we met almost 300 potential locals who love writing about the city they love, for an interview in their favorite spot. […]