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.
Lost and found. Restoring human connections through travel
While half the world’s population is connected to the internet, few of us are still connected to each other. Here at Leisure Lab we believe that travelers play a vital role in restoring that connection. This is why.
Tourism for Good – Ensuring local people benefit
‘When you think of sustainable travel, what comes to mind? Gorilla trekking in Uganda, perhaps, or a sojourn in a remote yet well-appointed eco-lodge in the forests of Costa Rica […]. If these high-cost trips are what pop into your head, your picture of what qualifies as sustainable tourism is not necessarily wrong – it’s just incomplete,’ says Lucas Peterson, a columnist for The New York Times.
Sustainable travel can be budget-friendly
‘When you think of sustainable travel, what comes to mind? Gorilla trekking in Uganda, perhaps, or a sojourn in a remote yet well-appointed eco-lodge in the forests of Costa Rica […]. If these high-cost trips are what pop into your head, your picture of what qualifies as sustainable tourism is not necessarily wrong – it’s just incomplete,’ says Lucas Peterson, a columnist for The New York Times.
Creative Tourism – Experiencing a destination through creativity
Break-even tourism shows many similarities to Creative Tourism. This concept was coined in the early 2000s and built on ‘the realisation that the creativity of both hosts and tourists is an important potential resource for the sustainable development of tourism’. In this article we’ll further investigate the merits of Creative Tourism – and, thus, traveling the break-even way.
The Maasai school teacher using tourism to empower women
Giving girls an education—instead of being sold as a bride for 10 cows—is what motivated Hellen Nkuraiya, herself a child bride, to start a school in Kenya’s Maasai community—even amidst public and family disapproval. Lisa Scott meets her.