Blog

5 -min. read Botanical is the new black for a growing generation of cacti-crazed influencers and entrepreneurs. Lisa Davidson digs a little deeper into our global obsession with greenery.

6 -min. read Emma Tucker gives us the low-down on six wacky ideas from Radical Innovation Award entrants that are forecasting – and driving – changes of epic proportions expected to transform the travel industry in the years to come...

4 -min. read Be Good is a series that uncovers travel projects that are not simply paying lip service to the growing importance of doing the right thing. First up is a man who's fighting against marine pollution by making ‘bottle boats’.

6 -min. read Meet the Mavericks from 2017 is a series that reveals the world-changing work and invaluable insights behind the revolutionaries who took away a trophy at last year’s PURE Awards. Up first are Cascada Expediciones, whose Dientes Trek won the coveted Transformation Travel Award.

5 -min. read In the heated anticipation of PURE 2018, Welcome to the Community has weighed anchor to help bring our new exhibitors into the fold. Up first are three newbies whose life ambition is to stir in travellers a transformative awakening…

5 -min. read From learning skills like starting a fire to drinking in the fresh air, elemental travel is on the rise. Travellers want to stretched emotionally and physically to regain a connection with nature in their lost and frazzled states of 24-hour hyper-connectivity.

7 -min. read Plans for autonomous cars have kicked up a few gears... Or three: the wheel is being reinvented, and to be asleep at it will no longer be the cause of havoc. But this is no time for travel businesses to be napping – learn about a fascinating, world-changing moment in transport history.

7 -min. read From theatrics to flavours of brandy with mushrooms and Oloroso with squash, mixology is reaching way beyond the bar. As fine dining pushes its creativity through the roof, the divide between bar and kitchen is growing ever narrower...

3 -min. read Emma Love investigates how tour operators in New Zealand are thinking outside the box to avoid offering 'cookie-cutter' packages, and how they're making their travellers' unspoken desires a reality.

6 -min. read Stanley Stewart faces his fears and tries out the marmite of experiential pastimes: hang-gliding. Understand the thrill and join him on his descent over the beautiful plains of Rio.

4 -min. read Up to 50 per cent of the food we produce never gets eaten – an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions. James Davidson explores the solutions that prove (food) sharing is caring – including trailblazing app OLIO, dubbed the ‘Tinder for food’.

3 -min. read Is anything really new? Hear Founder & CEO of Fathom Pavia Rosati's take on the next big trend in experiential travel.