Introducing Resonate — a digital magazine and storytelling platform for better travel stories, told by local voices
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Hi everyone, I'm Raj Gyawali. Some of you know me from socialtours in Nepal. I'm one of the co-creators of Resonate and part of the founding team. I've spent 20+ years working in responsible tourism across Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, and Ghana, and Resonate is the project I'm most excited about right now. I wanted to share why, and hear what you think.
Here's the belief it's built on:
The world doesn't need more travel content. It needs better travel stories.
We started Resonate (resonate.travel) to move beyond lists, influencers, and bucket lists, and instead tell the stories that give places meaning. Stories about culture, nature, and the people and experiences that shape a destination. Stories told by local voices, and ones locals are genuinely proud to share.
It's a digital magazine and storytelling platform celebrating travel that builds deeper connections between people, places, and purpose. We publish thoughtful work from local storytellers, travellers, photographers, and industry experts who believe travel can be immersive, regenerative, and culturally meaningful.
Because travel should do more than take us somewhere. It should connect us to local pride and local stories, and help us understand why a place truly matters.
We're at 153 stories from 120 storytellers across 71 countries, plus 40 destination guides — and we're just getting started.
🌍 Learn more about our community and joins us at resonate.travel/community/
What makes a travel story resonate for you?
And whose local voice do you wish more travellers heard?
Great concept, Raj. Certainly, we need more local voices and real user experiences.
Just curious, how will readers/users discover this page and stories?
Working on it, using Medium, social media, now thinking of FlipBoard - to create more reach
For me, a travel story resonates when the human experience is inseparable from the geography of the place — its landscape, routes, history, livelihoods, and the practical realities of being there. Beautiful descriptions may inspire, but specific local context is what turns a destination from scenery into a place that can be understood.
I would particularly like to hear more voices from communities outside the familiar tourism centres: smaller towns and mountain regions in the Balkans, remote parts of Central and Inner Asia, and places that are often described by passing visitors but rarely explained by people who live there.
This is also close to the approach behind my own project, Journey Beyond the Horizon: combining field observation, geography, photography, and practical travel knowledge to show not only what a place looks like, but how it functions and why it matters.
Maybe you need to write a piece on Resonate
Thanks, Raj — I agree! I’ve actually just sent Resonate a pitch for a Traveller’s Tale about my Mount Kerinci experience in Sumatra. I hope it may be a good fit for the platform.