Gourmet Traveller

The art of… being a better tourist

’m a travel writer specialising in sustainable tourism and I wince every time I say the word “sustainability”. I wince because I can’t believe we’re still saying it as if it’s something unusual. All the stuff we describe under a “sustainability” banner should now be commonplace. I thought I’d have written myself out of a speciality by now, because any decent hotel or tour operator would be sorted on single-use plastics, water management, energy usage and food waste. And any

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