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.
30 sustainable travel websites for the conscious traveler
Having trouble finding sustainable accommodations and experiences? Ana Cecilia Duék, director and editor at Brazil-based sustainability platform Viajar Verde, lined up 30 booking websites concerned with positive impacts on the environment, communities and destinations.
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.
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.
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.
The future of managed tourism
Doug Lansky, author of 10 books, including 2 for Lonely Planet and 3 for Rough Guides is rethinking tourism on his Youtube channel ReThinkingTourism. In this episode he discusses some of the possible tools required for a high-tech tourism solution that can help DMOs take control of the visitor experience. Laura Aalto CEO, Helsinki Marketing explains how the future of tourism is much more about destination experience than just seeing things.
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.
Reflection – The art of being present (whilst travelling)
Living in the present allows you to genuinely soak up your destination. Instead of being bummed out about the places you haven’t been able to visit, you’ll learn to appreciate the places that you have been able to visit – whether it’s that spontaneous encounter or that local coffee place that you went to over and over again.
Article NRC: ‘Mass tourism is dead’
Mark Duursma interviewed Els Doets for the Dutch newspaper NRC about the future of her travel agency Doets Reizen. Since the Covid pandamic, she embraced a new course with her company: "Deep" holidays and European destinations. Her words: “Mass tourism is dead. Passive travel - beach holidays in Spain and Turkey, cruises - no longer returns to its old form. We are going to travel with a purpose, to do something ”. We at Leisure Lab totally agree with Els Doets! The article is in Dutch.