Blog

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 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.

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 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...

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.

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…

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.

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.

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’.

6 -min. read In an increasingly fraught political climate, how can hotels and the travel industry make a stand — and better embrace the causes that matter? James Davidson explores the trailblazing brands swapping avocado toast for considered and impactful activism.

12 -min. read Far beyond ‘throwing a shrimp on the barbie’, Australia’s food and wine scene is blazing a trail by creating some of the most innovative chefs, restaurants and foodie concepts in the world. James Wilkinson dives into this exciting, fast-evolving movement.

6 -min. read Forget life on Mars. Tangible, wanderlust-worthy destinations can also be found mere miles, not light years, away, promises James Davidson - from Bolivia's sublime salt flats to Lanzarote's volcanic national parks.