Low Season Traveller Insider Guides

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

We were recently invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have an ancie...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the most stunningly beautiful in the world. Formed from the demise of 3 volcanoes, these islands not only have an incredible natural beauty, but they have a...

This past month we were invited over to the Islands of Tahiti by our good friends at Tahiti Tourisme so that we could learn exactly what the experience is like for visitors during the low season period. It may have been the rainy season, but we only saw rain on 2 days and to be honest, it was a refreshing welcome from the warmth of the Tahitian Summer. The islands of Tahiti are arguably among the...

This week I caught up with Harshil Khurmi who is a pilot for our friends at SkySafari . SkySafari delivers you directly into world-class wilderness. Their carefully designed trips, fly non-stop and in style between the best camps, with the best guides and the best wildlife watching in Kenya and Tanzania, without so much as a second wasted – which gives you longer to revel in the sights, smells, so...

Today we’re heading over to Vietnam to join Nikki as she travels the world during the low seasons. As consumers many of us are increasingly thinking about where our food comes, whether to buy an electric car, who makes our clothes etc, but how many of us have made the leap to thinking about how our holiday is put together? As regular listeners will know, Nikki Morrison is currently travelling the...

Today we’re bringing you a special episode of Insider Guides. I was recently asked to provide a keynote on Sustainability for the tourism and hospitality professionals at the Best Stay Event which was held in Croatia. As you can probably tell, I’m very passionate about sustainability and the issues surrounding climate change and so I wanted to ensure that everyone in the audience had some of the s...

Welcome to this week’s episode of Low Season Traveller Insider Guides, the podcast where we speak to the locals to learn what the experience is like for travellers during the low season months in their destination. I’m Ged Brown your host for this week’s episode and today we return to Northern Thailand where Nikki Morrison has been on location near the Myanmar border. As regular listeners will kno...

Today we’re heading over to Lucerne in Switzerland to join Marco Thali and Fabienne Zemp from Mount Pilatus . Mount Pilatus is Lucerne’s landmark mountain.  Standing at 2,182 metres, Pilatus offers her visitors and overnight guests a whole host of winter activities which allow those of us who don’t ski, to enjoy the gloriously clear, crisp mountain air of a snowy winter wonderland with all of the...

Today we’re heading over to Saas Fee which is known as the Pearl of The Alps, to join Florian Leven who is the General Manager of The Capra Hotel . The Capra is a luxury boutique wellness hotel which combines five star luxury with the warm cosiness of an alpine swiss chalet.  A favourite with ski connoisseurs every winter, Saas Fee is known as one of the most charming and beautiful regions in the...

We have been working with Nikki Morrison as she travels the world during the low seasons to help Low Season Traveller in our mission to draw more attention to the issues of overtourism and seasonality whilst extolling the virtues of low season travel. Nikki met up with John Borthwick whilst on her journey through Northern Thailand recently. John Borthwick is one of Australia’s leading travel write...

Today we’re talking about equitable and responsible tourism. James Nadiope is the founder and CEO of The Justice Tourism Foundation in Uganda and their vision is of a world where tourism brings greater benefits for local communities which in turn can participate in terms of job creation, poverty reduction and environmental management. It’s an incredible organisation and perhaps, this is what the f...

Today we head over to Northern Thailand. Our regular listeners will know that we have been collaborating with former BBC journalist, Nikki, as she travels around the world during the low season months in each destination.  She is currently in Thailand where she met up with Bruce Haxton from the Tuk Tuk Club as she joined their 10 day adventure. Here she speaks with Bruce as the tour came to it’s c...

Today we’re speaking with a renowned travel writer about the Greek island of Rhodes which is just starting to enter it’s quieter low season months of September, October and November. Rebecca Hall loves Greece. Not only does she eat, sleep and drink Greece, but she has now lived in Greece for many years. And, as a testament to her knowledge of Greece and indeed Rhodes, Rebecca writes the guides for...

Today we’re talking to one of our readers of the Low Season Traveller Magazine , Lea Lohmueller, a 23 year old sustainable tourism student from Germany who wanted to share her experiences of the low season months in Albania. You can read the full account of Lea’s experiences in Albania and indeed see some of Lea’s wonderful images taken during the low season months in this month’s edition of the l...

Today we’re taking a trip to what is arguably the true soul of South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal. Tucked away on the tropical eastern coast, this fascinating region promises a real African adventure in a beautiful and accessible environment. If a visit to the huge nation of South Africa feels a bit overwhelming, KZN (as it’s affectionately known) offers a more pocket sized experience with so much to di...

Today we’re bringing you one of the most important podcast episodes we’ve recorded in a while. We’ve all seen images of Sri Lanka on the news recently amid the turmoil of the ongoing economic crisis which the island is going through, but what is the reality behind the click bait headlines?  Are there any tourists in Sri Lanka now? What is the experience like? Is it safe to travel to Sri Lanka? And...