by annapollock@me.com | Nov 26, 2012 | MOVE
Some hoteliers hate them, many consumers and cash strapped property owners love them – and so do I. There’s no doubt that Airbnb is proving to be a highly creative and gutsy source of disruptive innovation and, what’s really exciting, is that...
by annapollock@me.com | Nov 13, 2012 | MOVE
Thanks to a sharing in Facebook’s Responsible Networking Group – thank you Jeremy Smith and Ethical Traveller, Catherine Mack – I was introduced to StoryMap.ie and heard myself (there was no one else to hear) let out an almighty YEEEEES! I...
by annapollock@me.com | Oct 23, 2012 | Conscious Travel, Mindsets, MOVE, Place, Value & Views
If I had to summarize what Conscious Travel is all about in just three words I’d use: Value, Mindset, Place Value The biggest tragedy associated with mass, industrial tourism is that it is selling itself, the rest of humanity and the planet short. Ironically, this is...
by annapollock@me.com | Oct 16, 2012 | Conscious Travel, Indigenous Values, MOVE, Pace
At WINTA’s Indigenous Tourism Forum held as the concluding day of the Adventure Travel World Summit 2012, my role was to explain why Indigenous Tourism is an approach whose time has most definitely come (slide deck here). When guests are received and hosted by...
by annapollock@me.com | Sep 27, 2012 | MOVE
Ironically, the very individual who put the islands of the Galapagos on the humanity’s mental map was an unconscious traveler, whose arrival in 1835 did so much to enhance mankind’s awareness & understanding of Nature while starting a potentially destructive trend...
