Savouring idleness on holiday
This is a story about doing nothing on holiday. It celebrates idleness as a virtue and as a much yearned-for leisure activity.
Ethical and responsible tourism
Ethical and responsible tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.
Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through slow adventures
Slow adventure experiences, such as canoeing, stargazing or foraging, are characterised by a slower passage of time, immersion in the natural world and a sense of belonging to small social groups.
The breadtime story
The unconventional museum of bread in which the ticket is paid for after the tour, in which the owner is the curator, in which the curator is the host, and in which the host is an artist.
Stay at home, return to self
New beginnings are always tricky. For most of us, undergoing a change is the major challenge. For me, settling into new environment is never that easy, and, coupled with complexities of bureaucracy and permeating fear from disease, additionally added to the uneasiness...
Making life choices amid coronavirus outbreak
My packing was half done. The suitcase was wide open in the middle of the room as if I expected it to suck in all of my vital stuff at once and rid me of that eternal problem – what to pack? The suitcase was laying on the floor for days. I just couldn’t be bothered to...
Business and leisure in London Docklands
World Travel Market is held annually at ExCeL, an exhibitions and international convention centre nested at the Royal London docks, between Canary Wharf and London City Airport. Together with hotels, massive carpark for thousands of cars, and two Dockland Light Railway (DLR) stations, makes a gigantic cluster of so called nonplaces.
The Bridge on the Drina
There is this small town in the east of Republika Srpska in Bosnia, that nested at the confluence of the mighty river Drina and its small tributary Rzav. In this town, everything is small; the houses, the shops, the streets, the number of people inhabiting it. At...
The contested past of Ukraine
In the early 1930s, the great famine descended on Ukraine. Claimed to be an intentional and man-made act which aimed to prevent the Ukrainian independence movement by Stalin, the term Holodomor carries in itself a weight of tragedy, suffering, and great human...
Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
It was an early Orthodox Easter morning when we set off from Kiev towards Belarus borders to visit that place called a post-apocalyptic world by the many. It was 28th April 2019, 33 years and two days after the infamous Chernobyl nuclear disaster, an event that is...