partners
Happy holidays!
The Local Travel Movement platform and blog will be taking a break from today, December 24, until January 2, 2012. Until then… …on behalf of Local Travel Partner (and co-initator) Spotted by Locals, I wish you a wonderful new year with lots of local experiences. Cheers! Bart van Poll […]
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 […]
Go Local Iceland linking up with great partners
Yes, we’re proud to announce that we happen to meet and get connected to great people on our journey to support the Local Travel Movement in Iceland and spread the idea of GOING LOCAL in Iceland. Now it’s time to share the overview of those, we’ve got hooked up to and we encourage you to […]
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 […]
Visit local to have a better vision of the world – Tour de Chocolate
Partaking in local tourism gives us a concrete and practical approach to better understanding how the various communities around the world evolve. Going local is not always the easiest way to plan a trip because usually it doesn’t come in a package. But the research is worth the effort because it makes us take a […]
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 […]
Conscious travellers want suppliers to think globally but act locally
Because most visitors to a place come from another and because most other places are far away, suppliers of tourism services have inevitably had to adopt a global perspective. Considerable attention is given to understanding cultural and linguistic differences of various source markets and to researching and deploying the different channels of distribution at work […]
Local communities in Ecuador
The Local Travel Movement clearly express why we should travel local. However how do you get your connection with the locals and how do you know that there is a benefit for both? This is a question that comes up every time when I am planning my trip. However in Ecuador these questions are not […]
A potpourri of local travel thoughts
I truly believe there is nothing as strong or beautiful as traveling locally. When I travel; I admire, I compare, I remember, I learn, I observe, I share, I love, I hate, I dream, I regret but I never forget. When I travel, I open myself to the warmness of genuine human beings, who like […]
Indigenous People’s Week: August 8 to 12, 2011
Indigenous tourism is the topic of the moment thanks to an innovative and fun ‘unconference’ that is taking place around the globe as part of Indigenous People’s Week, from August 8 to 12, 2011. As the founder of Planeta.com, I’m co-hosting the event with Sweden’s Nutti Sámi Siida. Their Anders Kärrstedt tweeted more than a […]