Tips include how to ride out a seriously strong hurricane when away from home. Post includes a link to the entire interview from The Gathering Road podcast.
Great recommendation for those of us swimming through travel blogging and submission struggles. I'm especially excited about the audio tours as I was involved in public radio programs in a previous career incarnation. After hosting a travel podcast that's interview based and knowing how much time can go into production, it's encouraging to see new explorations of sound and travel destinations emerging. Will they be profitable? Perhaps the media frenzy about long-form listening and 'Serial' will encourage investors eventually.
Recap: Excellent film and important issues. I was taken by the research and timeline and wondered about the theme's genesis? Pegi, did you have a personal epiphany? Was it spurred by your academic work or through travel? I'd like to include your responses in a post. I was in Koh, Tao, Thailand, when I first encountered the kind of travel impacts you highlight. It was over 35 years ago as a backpacker and the issues were there but on a smaller scale. With current trends towards experiential travel, it seems there's a glimmer of hope. Sustainable, Responsible or 'label-du-jour' travel will flourish if, as with economic costs, we can make it personal. Travelers will have more 'fun; connect more authentically and return home with a true sense of being enriched, if they have more self-awareness. Communities need, as you point out in the film, to organize better with long term goals for themselves, personally, and their families. It's a failure of our species perhaps that we lose sight of time and its impact on our lives and the world we so love to explore. Thanks for illuminating the issues in such a visually stunning, well-crafted film. (Thanks to Melvin too.)