Be Smart, Be Secure! Safety Tips for Travelers « Crooked Trails Blog

Be Smart, Be Secure! Safety Tips for Travelers « Crooked Trails Blog

My friends at Crooked Trails have loads of experience traveling around the world and getting to know the locals. Their advice will help any trip you are planning this year, check them out!

Local Travel - A movement to promote "going local"

Local Travel - A movement to promote "going local"

Here is a site dedicated to Local Travel Values
If you are mindful of the local people, you put yourself in the locals’ shoes and discover what they really think.
If you are mindful of the local environment, you put yourself in the heart of it, feel its beauty and power, and do what you can to preserve it for the future.
If you are mindful of the local culture, you put yourself in the local mindset and share in activities and experiences as locals do.
If you are mindful of the local economy, you put your money into local business and ensure that your tourism benefits the right people.

How to be a Local Traveller
Four easy actions could make you a local traveller:

• Connect with local people before or during your trip.
• Travel in a manner that is sensitive to the local environment.
• Respect local heritage and culture.
• Spend your money locally.

Sustainable Travel Initiatives in the Central Cascades - Central Cascades Geotourism Project

Sustainable Travel Initiatives in the Central Cascades - Central Cascades Geotourism Project
A great project about protecting the places we live in a holistic manner. National Geographic is spearheading this along with a dozen NW organizations to promote sustainable tourism in the NW.

Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging Manners… — BackType

Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging Manners… — BackType