We all see the headlines about how travelling is bad for the earth - and yet I know my podcast listeners also agree that travel is so very good for us, in so many ways, that we need to find a way to continue to travel. This makes the ideas of regenerative travel and sustainable travel important to talk and think about, and I'm pleased to have put together this episode to help us all do just that.
I chat first of all with Dr Susanne Etti, who's currently the Global Environmental Impact Manager at Intrepid Travel. We discuss how we can "make flights count", and her ideas on what we should do about carbon offsets, too.
My second guest is Diana Fischer from Detours Zürich, a small but impactful tour business running in Switzerland. It's exciting to hear Diana's thoughts behind how and why she set up the business and it's a good reminder for us to consider the impact of every business we choose to support when we travel.
Finally, I had wonderful chat with Sam Combs from the middle of a rainforest in Belize, where he and his family run the Sattva retreat centre. He ponders whether regenerative travel is really able to do more good than harm but also explains the lessons we can take home from travel, along with the permaculture focus of their centre.
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197 Getting Engaged While Travelling
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196 When Your Passport Goes Missing
195 Encounters with Locals in Central Asia
Book Club 04: Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajeshi
194 Trans-Siberian Train Journeys
193 Travel Firsts and Transformations
192 Travel in Dangerous Places
191 Travellers with a Disability
190 Covid-19 Thoughts from Western Australia
Book Club 03: On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux
189 Unusual Ways to Meet the Locals
188 Getting Sick on Your Travels
187 Historical Connections and Travel
186 Travel Mishaps
185 Slow Travel Benefits
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184 Antarctic Travels
183 Justifying Travel in the Climate Change Era
182 Travel and Personal Development
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