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.
Move Over, Sustainable Travel. Regenerative Travel Has Arrived
Can a post-vaccine return to travel be smarter and greener than it was before March 2020? Some in the tourism industry are betting on it, says Elaine Glusac, a writer for The New York Times.
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.
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.