The Alternative Travel Index uses a wide range of data from prominent international organizations and institutions, to identify the World’s Best Alternative Travel Destinations, with a specific focus on… Read More
Responsible Travel
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Alternative Travel: Let’s Try to Define It
Contemporary Alternative Travel emerged as a concept in the early 70s, in reaction to the negative economic, environmental, and social effects of mass tourism, accused of being unsustainable, inauthentic, and… Read More
Why Writing About Travel?
When deciding to embark on this editorial project, we simply thought that writing about travel and tourism is ultimately a good chance to reflect on today’s Western society, and that… Read More
The Alternative Travel MANIFESTO
This is not an indisputable set of rules, and we won’t ask for discipline. It’s just that promoting responsible alternatives to mass tourism became our mission, and we got a… Read More