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The protest sign outside the cafe in Gracia read, in English: 'Tourists, your vacation is my crisis.' It was 2017, and Barcelona residents had had eno...
You are planning a trip—or a whole tourism strategy—and the word 'sustainable' feels worn out. It should. For years, the industry has chased carbon of...
You have probably seen 'regenerative travel' slapped on everything from boutique hotels in Costa Rica to airline carbon-offset pitches. But here is th...
Travel is broken. Not the desire to see the world, but the way we do it. Carbon footprints, crowded landmarks, communities priced out of their own hom...
The concrete staircase to a remote beach in Thailand—I watched it crack and crumble within five years. Tourists kept using it, but the jungle was recl...
Every other week, some tourism board announces a "regenerative" initiative. Greenwashing? Maybe. Genuine effort? Sometimes. But even the sin...
In 2018, Thailand closed Maya Bay to tourists. The beach made famous by The Beach had become a victim of its own beauty—up to 5,000 visitors a day, bo...
You book a 'sanctuary' with high TripAdvisor ratings, drive two hours, and find elephants chained in a concrete pen. Tourists queue for selfies. The '...
You are scrolling through Instagram. A travel company posts a photo of a pristine beach, captioned: 'We plant a tree for every booking.' Sounds great,...
Picture this: You are sipping coffee in a quiet neighborhood. Then a bus pulls up. Thirty people spill out, phones raised, blocking the sidewalk. They...