Connecting with our roots
Agrotourism is much more than tourism, so it has many possibilities. Agrotourism allows knowing the productive process of crops and other agricultural activities. When receiving visitors, hosts, and rural nuclei perceive economic, social, and environmental benefits, allowing the perpetuation of the activity and conserving crops, livestock, and other local species, thus achieving a more sustainable rural world.
At the center of the journey
2020 is a year of change; we have learned new ways to work, study and live; we have been forced to think differently, and many aspects of our lives will be changing radically from now on. Travel is one of those aspects that will evolve and transform, hopefully into better forms.
Today we will meet Olivier Gibouin, who recently launched MakeYourTripBetter, a website that connects travelers to locals in a collaborative and free platform; this is their way of contributing to the development of caring tourism by making connections between travelers and locals easier.
Traveling slow
This year we have been forced to stop our accelerated pace of life, but there are many people who, for years, have decided to see life from a different, internal, and authentic perspective. This is how the slow movement was born; it invites us to look inside ourselves through sustainable actions in various sectors including slow food (with kilometer 0, the consumption of local products), slow schooling (with the inclusion of history and local characters in educational programs), slow parenting (as parents reduce their working hours to dedicate more time to their children and transmit their values to them).