Slow travel

Slow Travel promotes a highly potential pleasure of a journey that is usually lost by too much excitement and anticipation of arrival. It also discourages the need to travel by air, citing that the aviation industry is contributing record-high levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Contents 1 The Essence of Slow Travelling 2 The Value of Slow Travel 3 Recommendations in Slow Travel 4 Related Topics

[edit] The Essence of Slow Travelling

• Allows travelers to enjoy more than the adrenaline rush of speeding through and wandering in a foreign landscape. To enrich your vacation, you need to meet the people which is the focal point of the growing local tourism movement.
• Requires thoughtful preparation, learning about the places to be visited beforehand while allowing one's self to be surprised once you arrive. There is the experience itself and staying in contact after this journey.
• Lies in the moment and beyond the moment.
• Encourages person-to-person contact and a broader appreciation of people and place. It encourages engagement that can be mutually beneficial.

[edit] The Value of Slow Travel

• The chief expense for most travelers is transportation, slow travel will definitely take you further and will maximize your expenditures.
• Slow travel brings you closer and in contact with the locals, acts of philanthropy will surely be monitored closely and seeing the progress for yourself makes it more fulfilling.
• Travelers with a limited time budget often try to cram in as much as possible. It's easy to see a lot in a short period of time, but odds are you will run yourself ragged.

[edit] Recommendations in Slow Travel

• Be mindful.
• Be present.
• Uni-task. Opposite to multitasking.
• Unplug. The red flag is if you find yourself interacting with your cellphone more than with strangers.
• Put travelling back in perspective by travelling on a cargo boat instead of flying: Strand Voyages have been specialising in voyages on passenger carrying cargo vessels since 1987. Although critics point out that signing up to an ocean voyage means endorsing the heavily polluting shipping industry, since the ships will be carrying freight anyway, passengers are not adding to the carbon footprint of the journey. Most passengers however only do the cargo trip one way, choosing to fly on the return leg.
• Low Carbon Travel is the blog of Ed Gillespie, low carbon traveller exploring the world by means other than flyng. Ed contributes regularly to the Observer and his website offers inspiration for anyone wishing to travel with a conscience.
• Slow Movement "aims to address the issue of 'time poverty' through making connections." It provide a forum for discussion of any topic relating to 'slow' living - be it slow travel, slow food or slow living.

[edit] Related Topics

• Fly less!
• Slow Travel Europe - external link
• International Institute of not doing much - external link