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.
Post-Covid, Safari Companies Rethink Who Should Stay at Their Lodges
Some operators are turning the classic business model on its head in hopes of increasing margins and better funding their conservation work. But doing so is a risky move all its own, says Mary Holland from Bloomberg.
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Picture yourself in a small village in the middle of the French Provence: buying fresh bread at the bakery in the morning, slurping locally produced wine at the corner restaurant in the night. Spending your days exploring the surrounding chateaus, villages, or simply adopting the pace of the villagers. Sounds like this should be your next trip?
Linger longer – let’s talk Slow Travel
Picture yourself in a small village in the middle of the French Provence: buying fresh bread at the bakery in the morning, slurping locally produced wine at the corner restaurant in the night. Spending your days exploring the surrounding chateaus, villages, or simply adopting the pace of the villagers. Sounds like this should be your next trip?
How Instagram Is Changing Travel
Social media-savvy travelers are increasingly drawing their destination inspiration from Instagram—but at what cost? Carrie Miller, a New Zealand-based writer, traveler, and storyteller, aims to find out.
Travel mindset – Do you travel to show off, or to change?
According to Emily Thomas, a philosophy professor at Dunham University, there are two types of travelers: those who travel to show and those who travel to change. In this article, she’ll briefly explain the crucial difference – within a philosophical context.