This is a second episode in the series of presenting our dear committee members from the fair traveller organization. Meet Katie Leishman and her inspiring story about a trip around the world, witnessing sustainable development examples and a brave decision to quit her job and invest her experience in hospitality and desire to emerge herself in sustainability within the organization the fair traveller. Katie shares her story step by step on how to follow your heart, make a clear plan on what you want to do and get invested fully in your dreams in order to make them work.

This extraordinary woman travelled twice around the world, learned a lot and agreed to share her story with you, dear fair travellers.

Apart from being active as a committee member for the fair traveller, Katie started her own consulting and green event Management business Odela which you can find on this link: 

Keep happy and inspired and keep listening to us on our next podcast session with yet another positive story in sustainable travelling.

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What is slow travel? It is travelling where you take time to get to know local traditions and heritage in a slow way. It doesn't have a pre-defined time period, but it revolves around the idea that you should "stop and smell the flowers" in order to relax from a busy schedule of your "real life" and detach.

Hear about Wlad's experience about his crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and the travel trough various countries of South America. You will hear about the positive, but also about negative sides of slow travelling and solo travelling.

I am extremely grateful that I have the opportunity of calling Wlad a friend and a great inspiration, and I hope that his story will inspire you to try out this way of travelling. 

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This podcast was made in Cafe Mutin, a vegan restaurant (http://beta.thefairtraveller.org/review/974/Caf%C3%A9%20Mutin), which was the last #fairspot of the Geneva #faircrawl event. It was made after a whole day of exploring of the authentic side of this hyper speed city, getting inspired by new lifestyles of low environmental impact, so the participants are a bit exhausted, but still very interested in talking about the experience.

In this episode we share a bit of the atmosphere from super fun Geneva #faircrawl. We visited five #fairspot in the very center of Geneva with a group of interesting people who signed up on Facebook in order to explore sustainable places of a city that is widely known for its hip restaurants, international community and big buildings. 

We met locals, #fairspot owners, that are fully committed in positive impact for the environment and their local community and made short videos which are going to be published on our YouTube library of #fairpractices: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7MPUUnyb6NGntBXm8qbY1Q

If you would like to see live videos and photos published on social media, here is a direct link to the Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1889277234472830/

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People ask us what exactly is a #fairspot which you are supporting. In December 2016 we did a crowdsourced video explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV0KseCvLQY&t=94s

These days, we want to inspire people to be brave enough to change the world and think about the impact that they have while travelling. The means that we give them is to help #fairspot owners by adding them to our community of good doers; so they can share their experience in sustainable actions in tourism, but also learn from other #fairspot owners.

Wlad, Catarina, Julia and Petra are 4 comitee members of the non-profit organization called thefairtraveller.org. They are from different fields with a common goal of making world livable for the future generations and are agreeing on the role of sustainable tourism in that change. Travelling is something that we do, but we want to have a positive impact while doing so, hence thefairtraveller.

Listen to us discuss an important philosophical discussion and have fun while enjoying locally craft beer  in Geneva, Switzerland. 

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This podcast is part of season 1 where we are discussing the technicalities of organizing a #faircrawl. This podcast is meant for event managers or future participants of the fair traveller association, and is useful for everyone wanting to organize a tour anywhere in this world.

We, at the fair traveller, organize fun events called #faircrawls, where we promote sustainable travelling in an authentic way everywhere in this world. If you would like to organize such event in your city, please contact us on [email protected].

Our dear Anne that lives in Bern joined the fair traveller and organized a #faircrawl in her city. She is a first ambassador that invested a lot of energy and her time to show her side of the beautiful city of Bern. In this podcast she is talking with Petra and Julia (remember her from the first podcast on this subject). There is a lot of laughing with this happy trio.

Participants of the #faircrawl  had a lot of fun with Anne, you can check out the photos and videos on Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/176810452976917/

Enjoy this podcast and talk to you soon

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Want to become a member of our association based in Geneva? http://welcome.thefairtraveller.org/the-organisation/

We offer you many perks, but the most important one is that we make it possible for you to have an impact in this world. Come and join us on one of the #faircrawls and learn about on-the-ground sustainable actions that #fairspot owners are taking on a daily basis.

This is the first episode where Julia and Petra, co-founders of the fair traveller, discuss event management of a #faircrawl. Later on, we will have many more where ambassadors are going to share their experience on the subject.Support the show (http://welcome.thefairtraveller.org/the-organisation/)

We discussed possibilities of digital technologies in sustainable tourism, cultural heritage, farm experience with amazing prof. Lorenzo Cantoni on a beautiful island of Seili, in Finland, during the Summer school Co-creating on-the-road ICT solutions to promote sustainable tourism in UNESCO world heritage site (http://www.unescochair.usi.ch/activities-2/summer-school-2018).

An academical point of view on the bottom-up actions that are taken to promote sustainable tourism on an international level from such an expert in a relaxed environment is the best way of discussing travelling and culture.

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni's expertise is in eTourism, eLearning, communication, education and new media overlap, ranging from computer mediated communication to usability and various other fields. He is the chairman for the UNESCO chair at USI, a loving father and husband, but most of all, he is invested in responsible living and travelling on a personal and professional basis.

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Puspita Ayu Permatasari talks about her organization for promotion of Indonesian traditional cloth called batik. She talks with passion about different textures, significance of patterns, cultural heritage and her personal investment.

You can see more on their web site:
http://permatabatik.mozello.com/

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Marija Jose comes from Mexico and she is engaged in promoting her culture of Guadalajara for several years now. In this podcast, we had a chat on her engagement in a cultural tourism project in Mexico and the impact it had on the local communities of Guadalajara. We made this podcast in a beautiful villa in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, which is an ancient Mayan city revived in the 70es by responsible people who wanted to create a new respectful community. This is the first episode of podcasts where we present activities that promote local cultures, revive forgotten intangible cultural heritages that are being made by inspiring people all over the world.

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