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Issue · August 2026Field notes on regenerative travelVol. I

Magazine

An evolving archive of reporting, essays and dispatches from the places, makers and ideas shaping a more regenerative way to travel.

Wellness · Design & Culture · Food · Impact

The Lead · Wellness

The Wellness Science of Slow Travel — How Land, Culture, and Stillness Restore Us

Attention restoration theory, polyvagal science, and Blue Zone belonging — how a growing set of regenerative destinations offer three physiologically distinct pathways back to a rested nervous system.

Words Maria Fernanda Maldonado·24 July 2026·13 min read

In this issue

17 stories

Impact

Julia Watson on Indigenous Technologies, Climate Futures, and Why the Next 25 Years Matter

From Bangladesh's floating farms to Micronesia's tidal fish traps, designer Julia Watson makes the case that ancestral water technologies are our most urgent resource for climate-resilient cities.

Amanda Ho·14 July 2026

Impact

Regenerative Agriculture Tourism: The Ground Beneath the Table

From an Alentejo cork-oak estate to a Sumba permaculture plot, member farms are turning the working farm stay into a blueprint for regenerative agriculture tourism.

Regenerative Travel·14 July 2026

Feature · Impact

The Architecture of a Living Coast

From Saint Lucia to Alaska, coastal and island members are treating reefs as infrastructure and guests as participants — a new model of hospitality built around ocean recovery.

Maria Fernanda Maldonado·13 July 2026·10 min read

Impact

From Extraction to Regeneration: A Conversation with Urbanist Tony Cho

Amanda Ho·8 July 2026

Wellness

What Bob Thurman Knew About Letting Sacred Places Change

Amanda Ho·18 June 2026

Travel Guide

The Asia Issue: How Heritage and Regeneration Meet

Maria Fernanda Maldonado·13 June 2026

Impact

The Underwater Room Redefining Regenerative Luxury

Twenty metres off Pemba Island, a submerged suite at The Manta Resort funds a no-take reef, a first-of-its-kind co-management agreement with Tanzania's Ministry of Blue Economy, and 95% local staffing.

Design & Culture

The World's Highest Art Biennale Returns to Ladakh This August

20 May 2026

Design & Culture

Kasbah du Toubkal: Rising Stronger After the Earthquake

18 March 2026

Food

A Living Blueprint for Permaculture in Tourism

25 February 2026

Impact

Mountain Retreats in Reverence to the Earth and Climate

14 January 2026

Impact

Xigera: The Love Letter to Botswana

5 January 2026

Travel Guide

Taíba: Where Wind, Waves, and Community Shape an Authentic Paradise

On Brazil's northern coast, a fishing village turned global wind-sports destination — and how Saline Taíba, with 95% local staffing, is proving that growth and authenticity can coexist.

Anna Long·5 January 2026

Design & Culture

Weaving Heritage into Hospitality: Luxury Made Local in Ladakh, India

At Dolkhar, founder Rigzin Wangmo Lachic is redefining Himalayan luxury from the ground up — rammed-earth villas, Kharnak-woven rugs, and a plant-based kitchen led by the women who have long carried Ladakhi hospitality.

Amanda Ho·13 June 2025

Feature · Impact

Reimagining the Hacienda — From Colonial Roots to Regenerative Purpose

Once a symbol of colonial extraction, a 19th-century henequén estate in Yucatán has been reborn as a member sanctuary where Mayan communities lead 70% of the guest experience.

Lisa DiMartino·13 June 2025·8 min read