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Sustainability: asking the hard questions – of yourself and others

Sustainability: asking the hard questions – of yourself and others

Stuart McDonald finishes his sustainability series with a call to action for travel writers.

Apr 25, 2023
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This is the final instalment of our sustainability series with Stuart McDonald. Missed the first three? Go to the archive to dig them out.


If you’ve got this far, congratulations. I hope I haven’t made you feel bad about travel writing. In summary, I want to pull together sustainable tourism and writing about it, then finish with a trio of examples.

There’s a tonne of terminology and a decent dose of science which, should you be sufficiently interested in, is worth familiarising yourself with. That said, if that doesn’t appeal, I’m going to boil it all down to a very simple principle:

Travel better.

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A guest post by
Stuart McDonald
The co-founder of Travelfish.org and Couchfish, I’m based in Bali, Indonesia and write about both travelling and the travel industry. Think both could be better than they currently are.
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