The consensus on the question I posted before seems to be that it's okay to encourage travel, but that we need to encourage traveling BETTER, whether that means encouraging choosing trains over planes, taking longer trips, seeing things in a different way, etc.
My question now is HOW? How do I as a content creator do that? I mean, just lecturing people about sustainability or whatever isn't going to help. I'd love some PRACTICAL ideas on how to encourage better travel.
So far I'm trying - not always succeeding - to avoid writing about the places that are very popular and instead focusing on lesser-traveled places. I'm avoiding big general listicles and instead trying to write about much narrower topics. As much as possible, I'm traveling by train or bus rather than plane and that'll come through when I write about a place. Any other suggestions?
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Hi, I'm Averil Huck (new to this platform!) 👋 I'm a feminist tour guide in Prague, Czech Republic. I was wondering whether there were any other fellow guides focusing on feminist/queer history or other ethical topics. Should we start a new Topic specifically on these topics?
Hi Averil,
Welcome to our community. Here's a few tips:
1. I'd recommend to explore the #diversity topic for projects and initiatives in this space. Also take a look at the #women-in-travel topic. Note, these hashtags are links.
2. You can also use the keyword search at travelmassive.com/community to find members with relevant interests in their bios.
Hope you find these helpful!
Hi Ian, thank you! I've actually already found these topics and started following them. I'm curious to follow future discussions there.
Hey Averil, would you be interested in contributing to Narrated Guide (www.narratedguide.com)?
We are looking to collaborate with more local tour guides and travel writers and I think feminist/queer history tours would be a fantastic addition. As someone who's gay and a feminist, I would certainly be interested 🙋♀️.
What is Narrated Guide?
In short, we provide travellers with the resources they need to go on self-guided tours. This includes:
- Storytelling audio guides for points of interest (as well as text).
- Each guide is available in different languages (currently available in English and Chinese, with more languages to be added shortly).
- Each guide comes with a suggested itinerary with mapped routes.
I think the self-guided option would be a great complementary service for your in-person tours!
What's in it for you?
- You'll be helping travellers who can't make a specific time or simply prefer to guide themselves.
- Good passive income! You only need to write the content once, we’ll handle the audio and translation into other languages. Each time a guide sells, you’ll receive a payment!
- You will always have full control over the pricing and your content. If you want to stop working together at any time, we'll make sure it's taken off the shelves.
- Free marketing for you. We will advertise and market your in-person tours as well!
If this is something you'd be interested in, I'd love to discuss more in detail.
Hi Kaycee, thank you for your message. I'm curious to learn more about your initiative. We can get in touch via email and have a call someday maybe? Here's my email address: praguefemtours@proton.me
Fab! I've just sent you an email ✌️.
Hi there! I founded Stellavision Travel (www.stellavisiontravel.com) – A feminist-minded, moveable, touring, meeting-point where like-minded people connect. We specialize in boutique style travel through Italy, showcasing what you can't find on Google and introducing you to be locals you'd never meet on your own. I created Stellavision so that solo female travelers could find their tribe in an all-inclusive environment, this means all self-identifying women are welcome - and celebrated - here. We have a zero tolerance policy against discrimination of any kind.