What is "regenerative travel"?

A travel trend that goes one step further.

In recent years, mass tourism has brought a counter-movement to light: Sustainable Travel. Travelers are encouraged to keep their own impact on the environment as low as possible. This includes reducing plastic waste, increasing the use of travel alternatives such as trains and buses and booking sustainable accommodation.

One trend that goes one step further, however, is regenerative travel. Where sustainable travel seeks to minimize the negative impact of travel on the environment and people, regenerative travel focuses on the challenge of actively and measurably improving the social and environmental conditions of the destination.

Ultimately, sustainable travel is about having less of an impact on the environment and leaving the place you visit exactly as you found it. But regenerative travel does not stop there. To put it simply: where sustainable travel wants to preserve the status quo, regenerative travel wants to leave a place better than you found it.


Adventure "Regenerative travel"

It's not just about reducing your carbon footprint or taking the train more often: regenerative travel means actively doing something to preserve a destination during your trip. Be it the promotion of restoration work in schools or the preservation of national parks.

There are now even dedicated booking agencies and platforms for this purpose, which help customers to travel regeneratively right from the start of their trip. Customers are presented with a selection of choice accommodation that goes far beyond the eco standards of normal hotels. Travel that gives something back to the country and serves to protect regional diversity, health and development.

There are now many examples of "regenerative travel". One flagship project that we greatly appreciate is Great Plains Conservation, a leading ecotourism company with renowned safari camps in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe. The conservation tourism organization was founded in 2006 by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, award-winning filmmakers, conservationists and National Geographic explorers. Their aim is to conserve and protect landscapes, wildlife and local communities.

For those who want to start doing something good for the environment on their next vacation, we have found a particularly charming special nearby: The
Hotel Savoy in Grado is planting a tree in the name of its guests for every vacation booking of at least three nights, together with Treedom. (Valid from now until May 31)