traveling the world is great… but, let’s be real, it can also have a negative environmental and social impact.

Travel and tourism face big challenges:

Air travel’s contributions to climate change
A lack of community resilience and inclusion highlighted by the pandemic
Overtourism impacts
Animal welfare concerns

While many of us aware of these problems, we’re also unsure of what we can do to decrease our individual impact — aside from staying home forever.

We’d like t…

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