You know that feeling of wanting to update your travel practices but not finding the right (and credible) responsible alternatives?
Well, we are looking for fellow travellers to find a solution to this problem and continue to discover this damn beautiful world without destroying it.
TravaPowa (from FlowaPowa -> Flower Power -> 60's hippies... you got it, right?) is a European project in the making that aims to unite all initiatives that promote travel practices with a positive impact both for travellers and destinations.
It is a open source, participated project aiming first of all to take the debate beyond simplistic considerations of eco-sustainability and wanderlust.
Why do we travel? How we should travel in the future? What is positive impact? How to calculate it?
We wait for you to join the brainstorming
I'm gathering a community of impact trailblazers for a better travel sector
Congratulations Giulia and Federico! Travelling with positive impact is what we promote at TravaPowa (find our page here on Travel Massive). We can try to have have a chat to share some thoughts about it :) You also find a previous Discussion called "Ho... show more
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Then we should make time to get to know each other because that's what we do at TravaPowa. I'll get to you with a DM
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