The art of... being a better tourist
Gourmet Traveller|June 2023
It’s when we progress beyond the environmental basics of “sustainable travel” that feel-good travel becomes thrilling, says ANNA HART.
ANNA HART
The art of... being a better tourist

I’m a travel writer specialising in sustainable tourism and I wince every time I say the word “sustainability”. I wince because I can’t believe we’re still saying it as if it’s something unusual. All the stuff we describe under a “sustainability” banner should now be commonplace. I thought I’d have written myself out of a speciality by now, because any decent hotel or tour operator would be sorted on single-use plastics, water management, energy usage and food waste. And any decent traveller wouldn’t support a business that hadn’t addressed these basic priorities.

I hoped humankind would only have to bang on about recycling for a few years before we sorted it out, and then we could move on to sophisticated conversations about the pleasures of travelling, eating and drinking. Sadly we’re not there yet. But here’s the good news: what comes after standardissue “sustainable travel” looks amazing. Allow me to tell you about a few progressive people and places that have blown my mind lately.

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