Low Season Traveller Insider Guides

Special Podcast with Chris Flynn from The World Tourism Association of Culture & Heritage where we seek to find out if this is merely a temporary end or potential for a bright new beginning for travel.

Low Season Traveller contributes directly to small, community run charities like the Antigua National Sailing Academy. Their President, the delightful Elizabeth Jordan outlines why it's so important...

We catch up with Polo Sanchez-Valle who brings us on a journey of butterfly & Whale migrations, stunning beaches, festivals and culture. This is low season Mexico!

The tri-island state of Grenada has all that you would expect from a Caribbean paradise but it has a whole lot more! We find out why discerning travellers seeking variety in terms of culture, nature, music and cuisine are finding their own piece of paradise in these islands.

When are the low season months in Madrid, Seville and Bilbao and what is the travel experience like during these times?  This week we spoke to Nuno Dias, a Portuguese living in Spain for the past 8 years who's passion for Spain's cities during the low seasons is undeniable!  Recorded live at M&I Forums in Muscat.

Recorded live at the recent AviaDev Europe event in Valencia, this weeks podcast features an insightful panel discussion with European travel industry leaders. 

This week we talk about the low season experiences you can enjoy in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tunisia as well as Nepal.  Tanner Knorr is the Founder & CEO of Off Season Adventures, a US based tour company which focus on the low seasons and strive to leave a net positive effect in the destinations they cover.  This is what Responsible Tourism looks like...

We caught up with Garvan Rushe who's been a Dublin tour guide for over 10 years, to learn more about what Dublin offers in the low season as well as learn some insider knowledge about where the locals hang out, eat and drink.  Slainte! Visit www.dublintourguide.ie to learn more about Garvan and his tours...

Carolyn Childs is the travel industry's foremost futurist.  She studies, tracks, monitors and predicts tomorrow's travel trends and there is no better time for us to catch up with Carolyn than on World Tourism Day at a time when the world is in the midst of global climate strikes.  Here we learn what the future holds for us all as travellers and as travel industry professionals...

Rotterdam has a tourists to locals ratio of just over 1:1 unlike its neighbour Amsterdam which has a ratio of 20 tourists to every local.  Having been pretty much completely re-built after the war, Rotterdammers with their “can do” attitude, embarked upon building a modern, well connected and beautiful city with environmental and sustainability practices as a priority.  Today, it is an ultra modern city with environmental characteristics which are the envy of many global leading cities.  I spoke with Fabian Lindner of Rotterdam Partners to learn more about this wonderful city, it’s people and it’s attractions during the low seasons.

Guyana may be small in size but it is an absolute giant in terms of both responsible and sustainable tourism.  Low Season Traveller’s Sustainable Tourism Director, Dr David Ermen, caught up with Brian Mullis and Carla Chandra, The Director and Deputy Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority respectively, to learn more about this wonderful destination.

Located in the South West of France, Occitanie is made up of the two regions previously labeled Languedoc-Roussillon and the Pyrénées-Orientales. With the Languedoc known as “the other Provence”, the region runs from the Rhone River over to the Eastern Pyrenees and the Spanish border, taking in the Mediterranean beaches and towns along the way and extending northwards to the lower portion of the mountainous Massif Central. There are many similarities with Provence in climate, landscapes, perched villages and scenery - without all the crowds and typically at a lower cost.

Madrid is often referred to as a "travel surprise" as it routinely surpasses expectations. With cultural heritage, swathes of green spaces, breathtaking architecture and a plethora of culinary delights, Madrid in the low season has it all. We spoke to Ana Sostres, Market Manager for the UK at Visit Madrid to find out more.

Earlier this year I caught up with Deborah Collins from Visit Belfast to learn more about what Belfast is like in the low season months and to get her own personal recommendations.  Now is a great time to bag a bargain low season deal for a break in November or December to Europe's capital of the craic!  

Just 2 hours from the UK, Nice has a sunny, mild and pleasant climate during it’s low season in the winter months and provides the perfect escape from the grey, cold, misery of winter in the UK. I spoke to Nadja Graf of the Nice Cote d’Azur Tourism Board to learn more about what travellers can expect from a short low season break in Nice.

This week we speak with speak with one of the leading experts on tourism management about the problem with "overtourism", Surge Tourism and the "instagram" effect on destinations. We also discuss why hardly any destinations understand what their "capacity" is? We would love your thoughts on this podcast...

Teresa Nicholls is a proud Barbadian - but then that's the only type of Barbadian there is!  In this episode we learn more about this stunning Caribbean Island, with tales of Simon Cowell (a regular) and Rihanna and we learn why it's the beauty and warmth of the people that are perhaps Barbados' greatest natural asset.

Glynn Burridge has been in the Seychelles for over 35 years and has lived the hunter gatherer lifestyle before the majority of tourists knew the islands existed.  He has worked with royalty, authored best selling books, can be found on his motorbike around the islands, and may know more about pirates treasure than he lets on! The enigmatic and utterly charming Glynn Burridge spoke with me about his fascinating life.

Northern Europe's answer to Venice, Hamburg is a liquid city with water everywhere.  You can SUP through the city, enjoy white sandy beaches, visit the largest historic warehouse district in Europe, see the miniature wonderland, chocolate museum and where the Beatles hung out in the 60's.  You might just need a longer break away...

Riga is 3 times larger than Paris, has 58 neighbourhoods and an unbelievably rich sub-culture - yet the vast majority of tourists to Riga experience less than 5% of it during their trip. We spoke to Martins Engelis from the Tourism Department of Latvia to learn more about how tourism is managed in Riga and why it's an incredible low season destination.