Last week, I had the most “TRAppe-d out” birthday celebration at Cabiner Harvest, away in the Dutch countryside.

What’s wild is that, I actually found it on an OTA alongside more than 1,000+ other similar stays.

The words that immediately caught my attention?
"Stay on a regenerative community farm"

True to form, I hunted them down on the www. and booked directly 😉

Cabiner Harvest is exactly the kind of place that reminds me why I love discovering smaller, independently run accommodations. It was thoughtful, beautifully designed, deeply connected to the local landscape and one of those stays that leaves a lasting impression.

Safe to say, there'll be an opinion piece on it coming soon 👀

But first, here's everything that caught our eye in travel this week...

xoxo,
Gabby & The TRAppe. Team

If you're curious about the people behind Nepal's trekking industry, Marinel, founder of The Porter Voice Collective speaks with female trekking guides and trailblazers to explore their journeys, the challenges they've overcome and how they're reshaping mountain tourism in Nepal.

🎧 Share your go-to travel playlist or podcast with us. Whether it's road trip anthems or deep-dive travel stories, we want to hear and feature what fuels your adventures.

🌵 Desert dining: Discover the Indigenous food traditions and native ingredients that have sustained life in Chile's Atacama Desert for generations.

👵🏼 NonnaMaxxing: Why more travellers are swapping sightseeing for cooking, crafting and learning alongside grandmothers around the world.

🏔️ Alpine escape: Spend a month in Italy's Stelvio National Park with free accommodation, meals and €400, while helping researchers study life at altitude.

💼 For job seekers: Noma Collective is looking for a freelance fully remote Marketing & Social Media Lead with regular travel to help create content across their social channels.

📍Sumatra, Indonesia
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Sumatra is famous for its orangutans trekking but Wild Nature Trips believes the rainforest is about far more than a single wildlife encounter.

Their day tours and tailor-made adventures combine ethical jungle trekking with opportunities to explore North Sumatra's volcanoes, lakes, beaches and local communities, while naturalist guides help travellers discover the incredible biodiversity that makes this rainforest so unique.

Founded by biologist Cloé after years of living and working alongside the Bukit Lawang community, Wild Nature Trips was created to show that conservation, local livelihoods and tourism can support one another.

Every guide, cook, driver and lodge owner comes from the local community, helping create alternative sources of income linked to protecting the rainforest rather than clearing it.

Through zero-plastic, zero-palm-oil treks, they prioritise respectful wildlife encounters while working closely with local communities to ensure more of tourism's benefits remain in the places travellers come to experience.

In this week’s What’s Hot & What’s Not, meet Chi, a sustainable tourism nerd.

Chi manages industry relations for Saiyuen, a campsite in Hong Kong by day, who is an ecotourism consultant and doctoral student by night. Saiyuen is Hong Kong's premier camping and adventure park that aims to provide memorable outdoor experiences while maintaining the authenticity of our island home.

🔥 What’s Hot

Hiring local guides: finding out what their passions are and learning as much as you can from them. Birding: so hot. Trying new things! Tarantula is a high-protein, low carb snack packed with the micronutrients you know you want. Leaning into curiosity and asking questions like where does my tap water come from? What do kids do after school? Where do these captive animals come from? How do I feel about what I've learned this trip?

❄️ What’s Not

Lining up to get that photo or doin it for the 'Gram. Depending on IP for tourism. I have favourite Disney characters, but that shouldn't be an attraction's entire identity. Microaggressions and tourist entitlement, for example, "I spend money in your country so I have a right to xyz." Yucking someone else's yum. Littering.

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