Sustainability: asking the hard questions – of yourself and others

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

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

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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.