Let’s reinvent travel.
Leisure Lab is a think tank and media lab to promote sustainable tourism, or as we like to call it BREAK-EVEN TOURISM. In this LAB REPORTS section we publish news articles and create inspirational travel stories to help bring about positive change in the way we travel.
Amid a mass exodus, could ethnotourism save Dagestan’s mountain villages
Thousands of young people are fleeing Dagestan's isolated mountain villages in a bid for a better life in towns and cities, says Philipp Lausberg from The Calvert Journal. But can the region's rich culture be used to lure paying guests and livelihoods to these diverse enclaves – before it’s too late?