{"id":33059,"date":"2022-11-27T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slowtravelgreece.com\/?p=33059"},"modified":"2022-11-27T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:52:13","slug":"meet-the-founder-of-the-slow-travel-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowtravelgreece.com\/el\/meet-the-founder-of-the-slow-travel-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Travel UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the founder of the Slow Travel UK!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Slow Travel UK is a diverse group of writers, artists, and creators who write about locations they have visited and love. <\/p>\n

The founder of the Slow Travel UK, Sarah, introduces us to the joy of slow travel, where else, in the UK!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLLG: What is the story behind the Slow Travel UK, how did it all get started? \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Before the pandemic I was a historical travel writer for an archaeology travel site which was run by my old PhD supervisor. <\/p>\n

I was growing increasingly disillusioned with his approach to writing about sites we had never visited, and only focusing on the big tourist sites where money could be made selling tours, so when he was unable to pay me due to the pandemic and we parted ways, I jumped at the opportunity to set up my own travel website. <\/p>\n

I love being able to write about the places that interest me the most – the off-the-beaten path sites which I find fascinating but which don\u2019t necessarily generate any income. <\/span><\/p>\n

I also believe that tourism can be very environmentally destructive, so taking an approach to try to counteract that feels very worthwhile. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was surprised by just how many other people seem to feel the same, getting far more readers than I anticipated, and we have had some wonderful feedback for our writing and subject matters. <\/span><\/p>\n

My greatest coup has been to get Carl Honore, the author who started the whole Slow movement, to write an article for my site. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m also in talks with a major travel publisher to write a Slow Travel guide, which is very exciting. So I may not be making any money yet, but I love what I do and find real value in it.<\/span>
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Slow Travel is really very simple in its essence. It is about treading lightly when you travel, both in terms of the environmental impact you have on a place, as well as the social and cultural impact. <\/p>

People need to become travellers rather than tourists and consider the consequences of what they do.

Staying in huge concrete hotels in areas of mass tourism pushes not only the locals out of their homes, but also the wildlife which once lived there. <\/span><\/p>

Using businesses owned by multinational corporations only benefits shareholders who may live thousands of miles away, but staying somewhere locally owned keeps money in the local economy – the same goes for restaurants, shops and transport. <\/span><\/p>

Beauty spots and important heritage sites get fenced off due to the huge numbers of visitors, filled with gift shops and car parks so they become far less enjoyable for visitors and inaccessible for locals.<\/span>
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\nIncreasing globalisation has led to everywhere looking the same, and it will only get worse unless tourists make a very deliberate effort to change this, to seek out what makes a place unique and individual.<\/p>

Visiting the places that actively want your tourist money rather than those which are overwhelmed by the volumes of people is a good way to go about this.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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