A list of my favourite content creators who share tips and experiences around sustainable, slow, and immersive travel.
Shivya
Shivya shares unique travel itineraries and both educational and reflective posts about sustainable travel.
Her travel writing has been featured in multiple publications, and you can also read her blog, sign up for her newsletter, and purchase her book.
She also shares her journey as a travel creator and now teaches aspiring creators to do the same through ‘the shooting star academy’. The importance of creating content responsibly is central, given the workings of today’s algorithms.
Pina Travels
Pina Travels hosts the Curious Tourism podcast, which interviews conservationists, travel journalists, and content creators. A wide variety of topics are discussed, including ‘sustainable travel’, ‘dark tourism’, and ‘travel privilege’, intended to enable people to travel more mindfully.
On Instagram, she shares responsible travel tips and raises uncomfortable questions around travel.
Bea_adventurous
Bea shares alternatives to popular destinations, sustainable travel itineraries, and personal travel reflections on both her blog and Instagram. She also posts educational content, including decolonising travel and unethical wildlife encounters.
Frequently, Bea hosts group trips focused on inclusivity, community impact, and unique experiences.
That Travel
Emma, creator of ‘That Travel’, draws attention to the socioeconomic, political, historical, and environmental issues within travel across her blog, newsletter, and social media. She also shares inspiration and itineraries for travelling sustainably.
On the ‘Sustainable Travel Podcast’, she interviews with creators and leaders, often with expertise in specific travel niches.
Connie.Needham
With extensive experience in animal conservation overseas and an academic background in animal behaviour, Connie shares educational wildlife content on Instagram and YouTube. This includes information on pertinent issues in the tourism industry, such as unethical wildlife encounters, how animals are portrayed in the media, and ethical volunteering.
She also runs Project. Wild, which breaks down barriers to ethical wildlife conservation by educating people, providing group trips, and featuring ethical experiences across the world.
Sivan_Travelsgreen
Sivan engages deeply with local communities when travelling, sharing meaningful experiences and learning about local culture. She achieves this by staying in homestays, supporting local businesses, and taking part in community-based, positive-impact experiences.
She also raises awareness of the social, economic, and environmental issues connected with travel. She has recently raised awareness of tourism leakage, cultural appropriation, and the complexities of travel, including sustainability and safety, in an imperfect, shame-free way.
The Sustainable Travel Guide
Hi, I’m Lotte from The Sustainable Travel Guide. With my blog and Instagram, I hope to inspire people to travel more sustainably. I share tips around small changes you can make while travelling, as well as flight-free routes through Europe, eco hotel reviews, vegan food guides and more!
Bejal | Responsible Travel
Hi. I’m Bejal, an ex-scientist turned content creator, and I’ve been travelling the world slowly and responsibly for around 25 years.
I focus on luxury responsible travel and highlight places, including boutique hotels, that have a positive impact on local communities and the environment.
On Instagram, I create bite-sized local and global content with a responsible focus. On my website, I share in-depth destination, hotel and food guides to help travellers make sustainable choices. Rather than striving for perfection, I believe it is important to take small steps toward sustainable travel.
SoJournies
‘Sojourner White is the social worker turned travel vlogger, writer, and entrepreneur behind Sojournies.
She shares her perspectives as a Black American Solo Traveller and her extensive train travel guides.
She is also an award-winning travel journalist and has been featured on podcasts, at summits, and in journals.
Eva and the Planet
Eva, founder of Eva and the Planet, shares a slower, more conscious approach to travel rooted in cultural immersion, sustainability, and emotional connection. After leaving her corporate career in finance a couple of years ago, she built a life centred around travelling intentionally throughout Southeast Asia, learning directly from the people and ecosystems that call these places home.
Through storytelling, education, and curated small-group trips, she helps travellers move away from exploitative, bucket-list tourism and toward experiences that support local communities, protect natural environments, and create genuine human connection.
Sustainable Travel Girl
Annie, otherwise known as Sustainable Travel Girl, is an environmental scientist, tourism researcher, and sustainable tourism consultant dedicated to creating a more local-friendly tourism industry. She has seen tourism’s transformative nature firsthand and is a firm believer that we can create a more equitable and sustainable world by restructuring how we travel to harness the industry’s massive potential to make a positive impact.
Priyanka Surio
Priyanka weaves community-informed data for storytelling to empower grounded decision-making, industry marketing, and investment opportunities. Being a mixed-race Indian with dual citizenship, she embraces cross-cultural collaboration and exchange and advocates their importance in travel.
As an expert and practitioner of sustainable, regenerative principles, she has published books exploring how travel can be leveraged as a force for positive change worldwide.
Anesce Dremen
Anesce Dremen is a writer often found with a tea cup, traveling between the US, China, and India. As a first generation low income college student, Anesce has lived in Asia for 5 years and been supported by Fulbright, the Critical Language Scholarship, and Gilman Scholarship.
Her work is published or forthcoming in Longreads, Stillhouse Press, Gordon Square Review, Tea Journey, Business Insider, The Rumpus, and Electric Lit. She has been quoted by DAME Magazine, ProFellow, The Independent, and The New York Times.
She writes extensively about budget travel and has published many posts on sustainable tea tourism.
Final Thoughts
The best ways to learn are through our own experiences and those of others. I’m glad I have come across these creators who write about sustainable travel, though I know there are plenty more out there.
This post is part of the blog’s sustainable travel directory. On there, you can also find businesses and pages that make travelling sustainably easier. These include pages featuring impactful, community-led initiatives, sustainable accommodation platforms, and responsible group tours.
I will soon be sharing some tips and sites that will help you make friends as a sustainable traveller, as well as a post that defines sustainable travel and other relevant terms.
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