Low Season Traveller Insider Guides

Today we’re heading over to Vietnam to join Nikki as she travels the world during the low seasons. As consumers many of us are increasingly thinking about where our food comes, whether to buy an electric car, who makes our clothes etc, but how many of us have made the leap to thinking about how our holiday is put together? As regular listeners will know, Nikki Morrison is currently travelling the world for Low Season Traveller. After a long career with BBC News, the world of tourism is new to Nikki and she says it's been eye-opening. With supply chains to rival any supermarket, so-called Destination Management Companies (or DMCs) are vital links in the tourism chain but who outside the industry knows much about them? Understanding what they do is key to understanding how ethical or sustainable your next holiday might be. As ever covid revealed some of the worst practices among some DMCs but has also created opportunities to do things differently. One such group is the Global Travel Collective – a group of sma