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- Italy To Launch New Tourist Trains To Promote Sustainable Travel In 2024
Italy To Launch New Tourist Trains To Promote Sustainable Travel In 2024
https://www.travelandleisureasia.com/in/news/italy-special-tourist-train-sustainable-travel/
- Bhutan understands the beauty of slow travel so much, they've made an exemption on their tourism fees if you stay long enough.
Bhutan understands the beauty of slow travel so much, they've made an exemption on their tourism fees if you stay long enough.
https://www.afar.com/magazine/bhutan-decreases-visa-fee-for-longer-term-stays
- using Amtrak RailPass for a Euro-style honeymoon?
My husband and I got married earlier this year and figured we would plan a honeymoon later once wedding stress had passed. Now we've started planning and being in the Midwestern United States has us feeling frustrated about travel options that aren't planes, as we do not want to use them.
I discovered the Amtrak Rail Pass yesterday and was wondering if anyone had any experience (or knows of a blog, vlog, etc) where somebody talked about their experience using the pass to do a city-hopping sort of trip/honeymoon/vacation using Amtrak, or the pass specifically. Cursory research didn't show me anything, but I did see that the pass was on sale from $499 to $299 in January, so I am going to keep an eye out and see if they do that again. If so, it seems like a (relatively) cost-effective way to do a longer sort of trip, hitting 6 or so cities along the way.
Any perspectives welcome!
- Wow, this looks like a really beautiful way to slow travel 😍
Wow, this looks like a really beautiful way to slow travel 😍
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-ideas/abroad/a44090237/slow-travel-north-spain-ferry/
- Solar ebike camper just dropped 😂
Solar ebike camper just dropped 😂
https://newatlas.com/outdoors/hupi-solar-ebike-camping-trailer/
- Pretty excited to find a local tourist attraction around me that has embraced solar power to run their facility.
Pretty excited to find a local tourist attraction around me that has embraced solar power to run their facility.
Will be visiting here in a couple weeks!
- Slow Travel Pyrenees by Train Bike and Hike
Slow Travel Pyrenees by Train Bike and Hike
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/slow-travel-pyrenees-by-train-bike-hike
- Walking and cycling are going to be prescribed by doctors.www.lancs.live Cumbria doctors to start prescribing walking and cycling in NHS shake up
The county has been selected to take part in an innovative trial
- The European train routes that are cheaper than taking a flightwww.euronews.com The European train routes that are cheaper than taking a flight
Beat the summer's soaring flight prices by taking one of these train journeys.
- Two teenagers set off on a cycle trip around the world. It didn’t go according to planwww.cnn.com Two teenagers set off on a cycle trip around the world. It didn’t go according to plan | CNN
Adam Swanson was just 17 when he and his friend Henry left Minnesota on a two-year cycle trip around the world in 2021. Here’s what happened next.
- Great idea! offering discounted hotel stays for train travellersglobetrender.com The Hoxton offers discounted hotel stays for train travellers
To encourage guests to travel more sustainably, the Hoxton is offering £20 off room rates for those who arrive by train
- Corpse Flowers are the biggest flowers in the world, and blooms for one day every four years. Tonight I saw one.
I had to wait in line 2 hrs to get into the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, but we saw it. The flower is named after its odor, which resembles rotting meat to entice scavenger insects into pollinating it. It smells truly foul. 8/10 experience, highly recommend.
Also, how do i make Alt text for an image post?
- Rail Europe’s CEO on making train travel ‘sexy’ againwww.euronews.com Rail Europe’s CEO on making train travel ‘sexy’ again
Björn Bender envisions a ‘wonderful outlook’ for night trains and what it will take to get there.
- Bristol Beacon announces sustainable travel tie-up with First Busthebusinessmagazine.co.uk Bristol Beacon announces sustainable travel tie-up with First Bus
The transformed Bristol Beacon, set to reopen in November this year, has unveiled a tie-up with First Bus, which will reward concert-goers for travelling sustainably to the venue in the city.
- The Case Against Travelwww.newyorker.com The Case Against Travel
It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.
What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make? My nominee would be “I love to travel.” This tells you very little about a person, because nearly everyone likes to travel; and yet people say it, because, for some reason, they pride themselves both on having travelled and on the fact that they look forward to doing so.
The opposition team is small but articulate. G. K. Chesterton wrote that “travel narrows the mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson called travel “a fool’s paradise.” Socrates and Immanuel Kant—arguably the two greatest philosophers of all time—voted with their feet, rarely leaving their respective home towns of Athens and Königsberg. But the greatest hater of travel, ever, was the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, whose wonderful “Book of Disquiet” crackles with outrage:
> I abhor new ways of life and unfamiliar places. . . . The idea of travelling nauseates me. . . . Ah, let those who don’t exist travel! . . . Travel is for those who cannot feel. . . . Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to move around to feel.
If you are inclined to dismiss this as contrarian posturing, try shifting the object of your thought from your own travel to that of others. At home or abroad, one tends to avoid “touristy” activities. “Tourism” is what we call travelling when other people are doing it. And, although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer.
One common argument for travel is that it lifts us into an enlightened state, educating us about the world and connecting us to its denizens. Even Samuel Johnson, a skeptic—“What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country,” he once said—conceded that travel had a certain cachet. Advising his beloved Boswell, Johnson recommended a trip to China, for the sake of Boswell’s children: “There would be a lustre reflected upon them. . . . They would be at all times regarded as the children of a man who had gone to view the wall of China.”
Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?
- European consumer groups hit out at airlines for ‘greenwashing’www.businesstravelnewseurope.com European consumer groups hit out at airlines for ‘greenwashing’
A group of European consumer groups have launched an EU-wide complaint against 17 airlines for so-called “greenwashing” over their claims about making air travel more sustainable.
- Yes, it’s possible to give up flying for the climate. These are the Bay Area residents who’ve done it
This article features Ariella Granett who founded Flight Free USA and hasn't flown since 2019.
- Cutting carbon pawprints: Byway launches flight-free trips for dogswww.traveldailymedia.com Cutting carbon pawprints: Byway launches flight-free trips for dogs
Travel start-up Byway has launched an exciting new collection of sustainable holidays for dog owners, prooting sustainable travel.
Byway Travel tries to make flight free travel simple for more people to shift towards more sustainable travel.
- Actual headline: 87% of consumers want to travel sustainably so tourism companies greenwash for themblueandgreentomorrow.com Major Tourism Brands Form Promising New Sustainability Initiatives
Consumers care more about sustainability now. They choose brands that offer sustainable or eco-friendly options. Travel is a big industry that can benefit host nations and communities if managed su…
- solar etrike ready for 220 mile ride this weekend?
I have built a few versions of solar ebike, but this one is the most fun thus far. I'm going to be test riding it long distance this weekend. Wish me luck!
- 5 European beaches you can reach by trainwww.euronews.com Take the train to these 5 beaches in Europe
Italy, France, Spain and the UK all have coastlines on a rail network.
- 5 places to visit in the US where you'll feel like you've left the country — without leaving a big carbon footprintwww.insider.com 5 places to visit in the US where you'll feel like you've left the country — without leaving a big carbon footprint
Insider's reporter found places in the US that resemble travel destinations around the world. Instead of Tuscany, take a trip to Napa Valley.
- Why sleeper trains are being revived across Europewww.bbc.com Why sleeper trains are being revived across Europe
A number of rail operators are launching new sleeper train services across the continent.
- Why I love my ebike! the most sustainable form of travel on the planet
Ebikes + renewable energy is more efficient even than a human riding a traditional bike! The energy has to come from somewhere.
- Solarpunk Travel: Traversing The World Without Destroying Itsolarpunkdruid.com Solarpunk Travel: Traversing The World Without Destroying It
Air travel is almost unparalleled in the environmental damage it inflicts. The fuel consumption taking a single flight can wipe out years worth of ecological living. Yet the idea that we may have t…
- This new sustainability trend encourages employees to embrace slow travelwww.independent.co.uk This new sustainability trend encourages employees to embrace slow travel
The work perks scheme rewards staff who travel in a slower, greener way with more time off, writes Lucy Thackray
