Sustainable Travel
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Combatting Overtourism with Responsible Travel Solutions
What is Overtourism? For as much as you see Frost’s famous phrase about taking “the road less traveled”, it sure seems like we all are on similar paths. Finding too many tourists in the same locations is a growing problem. So what really is overtourism, how big is the issue & how does it relate to responsible travel? The definition of overtourism is when “tourism has moved beyond the limits of acceptable change in a destination due to quantity of visitors, resulting in degradation of the environment and infrastructure, diminished travel experience, wear and tear on built heritage and/or negative impacts on residents.” ~ Center for Responsible Travel, CREST The…
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The Challenges and Triumphs of Traveling Solo
My eyes squinted, adjusting to the sunlight as I wearily stepped through the sliding airport doors, pulling my luggage and making my way towards the taxi stand. I was surprised to see a woman emerge from the drivers seat, a light pink scarf adorned her head. I rubbed my eyes to make sure I had seen correctly. Not many women cabbies in general (only 2% of the world’s taxi drivers are women) and certainly even less in a predominantly Islamic country so it’s fair to guess she is a minority in the Malaysian transportation service arena. Bleary-eyed from my early flight I opened the door and slid across to the…
