There are 4 key values that we find important when traveling: improving our environmental impact, deeper personal experiences, more meaningful social relations, and supporting the local economy

Keywords: social , travel , workaway , budget , economical, Greece , money , weirdosabroad

Choices with financial savings CAN put more stress on the environmental aspect (for example plane versus train or car), but not always. For food, the cheapest price should be local products. So preferably a street market instead of a supermarket full of imported products. And if you do shop in a supermarket try to find the local produce instead of imported avocados or bananas. For us, the nutritional part matters as well. We could eat cup noodles every day and spent around 1 EUR on food but that is not in our interest. So we shop for “good” food and keep a balance between nutrition and affordable products. Wherever we can, we drink from the tap. Water is our main source of life! We don’t drink much alcohol and don’t go to cafes very often so this bill stays pretty low…
https://weirdosabroad.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/money-money-money

There’s nothing that screams “I am a tourist and I’m alone!” like stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at your Google Maps or a paper map

Keywords: travel , confidence , packing , planning , solofemaletravel , solotravel , staysafe , traveltips , wanderlust

Even though you are purposefully traveling alone, making friends along the way is one of the best parts of a solo trip, and chances are that you’ll keep track of them for years to come.
https://emilieonthemove.com/2020/08/19/the-solo-female-traveler

Support Local Businesses, but Who Gets to be the Local?

Responsible Tourism, responsible traveler, Tourist Money, travel

Gita Natalia

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, local as an adjective means “from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of a country”

If you travel to another country and you have this passion to be an impactful traveler, the simplest thing you can do is track where your tourist money goes to avoid what is called the ‘Tourism Leakage’. It simply means that a huge chunk of your tourist dollar leaves the country to where you travel instead of doing its magic to the locals. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, 70% of tourist money in Thailand ended up leaving the country. That is also 80% of the Caribbean’s and 40% of India’s tourist money that left their countries instead of contributing to the local economy.

Why does this happen? World Travel & Tourism Council stated that the multinational company is mostly responsible for…

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According to the Cambridge Dictionary, local as an adjective means “from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a smallarea, especially of a country”

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, local as an adjective means “from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of a country”