Elite Traveler: Sustainable Changemakers
To mark World Earth Day, Elite Traveler chatted to a range of changemakers across travel and hospitality to find out how they're committed to protecting the planet. Among them was our founder Oli Broom who spoke about The Slow Cyclist's 'community-first approach to travel.'
Read on for an excerpt of the article.
'“I’m slightly uncomfortable with the word ‘sustainability,” says Broom. “It’s used so liberally.”
“We simply build trips where the interests of the traveler and the interests of the community are aligned. If a guest has an extraordinary meal at a family-run guest house in Transylvania or a farmhouse in Abruzzo, that’s not a sustainability initiative, it’s just a better travel experience that happens to keep money local.”
While choosing locally owned, family-run accommodation over international hotel brands can at times feel commercially risky, this allows the money to stay local, and, according to Broom, the reason guests come back and recommend The Slow Cyclist.'
You can read the full article here.
To learn more, read about The Slow Cyclist difference and what inspires guests to keep travelling with us. To plan your next trip, see our upcoming e-bike tours.
