Learning to be a Kind Traveler With Jessica Blotter

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As the world opens up to traveling again, can you make your travel experiences more meaningful? This week’s guest will show you how! Jessica Blotter is a speaker and journalist who specializes in sustainable and regenerative tourism. After witnessing extreme poverty on a vacation to Belize, Jessica launched a movement in 2016 called Kind Traveler, which allows travelers to positively impact the communities they visit — and enjoy incredible experiences as well. In this episode, she explains why it’s so important to travel kindly, and every trip you take can make a difference. In this episode, you’ll learn: What sustainable and regenerative tourism is and why it matters. The role that giving back plays in creating a more positive travel experience. How you can embrace sustainable tourism in your own travels.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 375 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.8	Now that we're taking vacations again, have you thought about how to bring more kindness to your travels?
0:13.7	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Jessica Blotter,
0:18.2	a speaker and journalist who specializes in sustainable and
0:21.6	regenerative tourism. After witnessing extreme poverty on a vacation to Belize, Jessica
0:28.0	launched a movement in 2016 called Kind Traveler, which allows travelers to positively impact
0:34.6	the communities they visit and enjoy incredible experiences as well.
0:40.2	She's here today to talk about why it's so important to travel kindly and how you can make
0:45.2	every trip you take make a difference. Jessica, welcome to Live Happy Now.
0:50.7	Thank you so much for having me, Paula. It's such a pleasure to be here.
0:55.0	It's exciting to have you on the air. We've had you on our website. We had you when we had the magazine. And you
1:00.3	have such an incredible mission because you are all about sustainable tourism and giving back.
1:05.3	And so before we dig into what you're doing, let's start by explaining what sustainable tourism
1:10.4	even means. Sure. I'm start by explaining what sustainable tourism even means.
1:11.7	Sure. I'm happy to. So sustainable tourism is really about asking the question how one can
1:19.5	maximize their perhaps positive impact when they travel and minimize their negative impact when they travel. And we're really looking at the
1:31.0	entire cycle of the traveler journey. So from how you get there, your transport, the type of lodging
1:38.9	that you choose, the behavior and activities that you have on the ground, and what throughout all of those, that travel cycle, you know, looking at that question
1:49.1	and how can I maximize positive impact as it relates to communities and the environment
1:55.6	and the actual destination that you're in in minimizing things like your carbon footprint or preventing
2:03.3	food waste or things like in that nature. So that's at the essence, what it is.
2:09.1	Why is it so important for us to not just continue those practices, but really step it up
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