I deserve a break every once in a while
A bit of space to disconnect goes a long way towards a healthy life
ExploreA bit of space to disconnect goes a long way towards a healthy life
ExploreWendy will never forget how unselfish the local people of Yanuya are, they want to help you without wanting something in return. They want to spend their time with you and learn you all kinds of things. That is something she had never experienced before in all her time of traveling.
ExplorePascal talks about the importance of holidays, very aware that he hasn’t had a holiday in over three years. He explains that as a small business owner he has to travel a lot, so that a hotel room is absolutely the anti-thesis to what defines a holiday for him.
ExploreTaleb Rifai, former Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and moral sponsor of Connect Your Story tells the story of a wonderful encounter with a female entrepreneur on the lake of Halong Bay.
ExploreEls is recalling the tandem cycling trip she went on in Brighton last year in May. This typical South-Eastern English town was both the starting and arrival point of a 600-km cycling track.
ExploreWhat kind of holiday do we want this year? Beach, mountains, rest, action, familiar, new, luxurious, basic,…? People choose where they want to go and what they want to do.
But what about values?
Social tourism offers holiday opportunities to people who would otherwise struggle to go on holiday for financial, logistical or practical reasons. According to Professor Scott McCabe, holiday experiences can be life-changing.
ExploreTourism is very important in the Dominican Republic. But for the moment there is still a vicious circle in the country that makes the rich only richer and that doesn’t help the poor communities to develop themselves. Turissol, the agency for sustainable tourism wants to change this.
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