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What does it take to make travel better for people and the planet? Join travel writer Erin Hynes, podcast producer, Kattie Laur, and their guests, as they explore their curiosities about what truly makes travel and tourism responsible. Follow us on Instagram: @curioustourismpod Reach us by email: [email protected] Curious Tourism is part of the Voyascape Travel Network & you can find more of our travel podcasts from around the world at https://voyascape.com/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Curious Tourism brings Leisure's travel shelf a thoughtful lens on responsibility, money, power, and pop culture travel fantasy.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast belongs in Leisure's travel corner, but it is not trying to sell travel as an easy escape. Erin Hines hosts, with producer Katie Lohr part of the conversation and production, and the show moves between responsible travel discussions,…
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A travel conversation that keeps Socotra's beauty in view without letting politics fade out.
Socotra is framed as an online dream destination, but the episode keeps pulling that image back toward the political reality that shapes access to the island. It opens on dragon blood trees and white sand beaches, then reminds listeners how Yemen can vanish behind the aesthetic.
A practical look at how severe food allergies reshape travel.
This episode takes a familiar travel subject and keeps it grounded in the day-to-day reality of severe food allergies. It follows the shift from an early peanut allergy to the ongoing hassle of airline food, and it is strongest when it stays close to that lived experience…
A White Lotus recap that makes luxury feel polished on the surface and uneasy underneath.
The piece is at its best when White Lotus shifts from the changed opening music into the polished, faintly eerie logic of luxury. It keeps the focus on what a regular hotel leaves in view and what a high-end resort keeps out of sight, including the small logistics that make the…
A travel conversation that finds its edge in identity, safety, and a nerve-racking Sri Lanka tuk-tuk lesson.
The discussion treats travel as a way of seeing how identity changes the experience, not just the destination. Its strongest stretch comes from the contrast between solo travel and time with Lucas, especially where the speaker notes being treated differently in some cultures and…
A grounded reminder that travel timing is mostly about tradeoffs, planning, and the cost of changing course.
The episode makes a convincing case that there is no single best time to travel, and it starts well with Venice as the clear contrast between a quiet March arrival and the heavier summer surge.
A serious travel conversation that keeps the human and structural stakes in view.
The episode treats sex tourism as a travel subject with a long history and a wide reach, shaped by power, race, economics, and inequality. Erin Hines and Dr.
A travel conversation that treats disappearing places as an ethical problem, not a bucket-list thrill.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast treats last-chance tourism as a moral problem, not a novelty. It asks why people rush to glaciers, reefs, and polar landscapes before they vanish, and the Mer de Glace discussion gives the episode a clear center.
A recap that keeps asking who gets to turn a place into a backdrop.
The episode uses a White Lotus recap to look at the machinery around destination TV, and the hook works because it keeps connecting the Thailand setting to the charge that prestige drama can help fuel over-tourism.
Weekly multi-segment travel interviews pairing European destinations with historians and explorers.
Deep Disney parks talk, right down to the signage.
Real family routes, practical travel stories.
Everyday curiosities, explained with a sideways grin.
The episode centers on a traveler living with severe peanut allergies and how that shapes every part of going abroad.
The hosts open with a White Lotus recap and quickly pull the conversation toward Thailand, tourism, and how the production works with the local tourism authority there.
Two hosts explore the top travel predictions for 2026, including nocturism (nighttime tourism driven by heat), literary tourism, younger cruise demographics, and hyper-personalized niche travel.
The recap finally catches fire.
Erin Hines opens by framing sex tourism as a centuries-old part of travel that has grown with globalization into a major industry around the world.
The hosts open on the White Lotus finale and immediately want out of the resort.
The conversation opens with last-chance tourism, the urge to go out of the way to see places before they vanish.
This travel podcast episode explores how the 2006 movie The Holiday sparked the home exchange movement, which predated Airbnb by a year.
The Maasai sued Marriott for violating conservation moratorium
This Voyescape episode starts with a simple question: what media trips are for, who they serve, and why they matter in travel storytelling.
The hosts start with Venice and how tourism shifts when the seasons change.
Pretty much everything here starts with White Lotus.
They start with how travel changes once solo trips become trips with a partner.
Tribal Park Allies - Indigenous Tourism in Tofino
The recap opens with the new theme music.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast turns a TikTok argument about Christ the Redeemer into a broader question about whether the New Seven Wonders list should exist at all.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast looks at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, where 116 medal events will run across 16 disciplines and a new ski mountaineering event, skimo, has been added.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast uses a Japan honeymoon planning conversation to examine how AI is entering trip planning, with a Statista report saying approximately 40% of travelers worldwide have used AI-based tools.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast uses Jana's reporting to compare trophy hunting in East Africa and Canada, including a 2025 Research Co survey showing only 12% of Canadians support hunting animals for sport.
Curious Tourism opens with the blunt reminder that travel is not equally available to everyone.
Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast focuses on the current landscape of Indigenous tourism in Canada, with Juanita Marois of Métis Crossing near Edmonton, Alberta.
Shira's commentary keeps the discussion feeling loose, like a watch-it-together chat.
The episode starts with Socotra and the way it gets packaged online as a beautiful, quiet escape.
Erin comes back to The White Lotus and the hosts treat the resort like it is one bad glance away from going up in smoke.
The hosts discuss their excitement for an upcoming trip to Japan and introduce a sponsor about travel finance.
This episode explores what it means to travel better by focusing on ethical and sustainable practices that benefit local communities and the planet.
This episode discusses social washing in responsible tourism, featuring a guest expert on the topic.
This episode explores the complexity of travel safety through the lens of identity, featuring a discussion on how race and personal experiences affect perceptions of safety.
This episode explores halal travel and the inclusivity of the tourism industry, using New York City's halal travel guide as a case study.
The hosts discuss travel predictions for 2023 and their own travel highlights from 2022, focusing on responsible and sustainable tourism.
This episode explores the concept of overtourism, its causes, and how to make tourism more sustainable.
This episode explores what it means to de-center ourselves as travelers and the impact of our travel decisions on communities, featuring guest Joanna Haugen.
The episode discusses responsible travel and features an interview with Amanda Kendall about her pandemic travel experiences.