Scotland recs from locals My boyfriend and I are visiting Scotland for the first time for a friend’s wedding at the end of March/early April. Our itinerary is already set out location/accommodation-wise and we’ll be driving the majority of the trip and then returning via train from Glasgow-Edinburgh. (We are aware of narrow/single lane roads and bf has experience with th…

Vegan in Sri Lanka & supporting the locals Hey! So my boyfriend and I want to visit Sri Lanka in February – May (not sure when exactly yet, but we plan to stay 30 to 40 days) for the first time! Do you have any recommendations on how to have a nice stay while being Vegan? Maybe you know good places and or dishes :)? We also plan to prepare food ourselves. Besides that, we would be happy …

Places that tourists love but locals hate? Outsiders are fascinated by Times Square but New Yorkers avoid it like the plague submitted by /u/Lost_Wikipedian

How to meet locals while now traveling with young kids I have been to over 30+ countries and one of my favorite aspects of traveling is meeting and talking with local people. In my 20s it was easy, nightlife and drinking at local places is obviously the standard method to making local friends, and I’ve met some really great people and had amazing experiences just being intentionally lost and off the…

Learning from the locals I see so many people saying how travel broadened their horizons, how they learned from the locals and so on. How does that work when a tourist would have at most a very rudimentary grasp of their host country language, which surely doesn’t lend itself to in-depth exchanges of thoughts and opinions with the locals? At the same time, seeing just a…

How can someone visit Hawaii and support the locals as much as possible? First off, thoughts with Maui. 🌺 Healing above everything. So I would really love to visit Hawaii at least once in my life. However, the more I learn about the housing crisis across the islands, the vast dependence on tourism, and the watering-down of indigenous culture for tourists, the more despondent I get about being an ethical tourist. At t…

Are segway tours an obnoxious ‘touristy’ thing to locals? For our first trip overseas, I am planning a tour in each location. In Budapest there was a segway tour that sounded interesting and covers a lot of ground. However, I have never been on a segway nor lived in a city big enough that segway tours happen – so I am not sure if it is actually an easy way to see the city or kind of a difficult way to …

Places you have been where the locals despise the tourists Have you ever been somewhere and felt like you were being treated very poorly everywhere you went because you were a tourist, or because of your skin color if you’re visiting a place where the majority population looks different than you? submitted by /u/Zealousideal_Owl9621

After Maui Fires, Locals Fear Being Shut Out of Recovery Hawaii has long endured battles for resources among developers, tourists, Natives and workers. Now, many who lost homes and jobs wonder if there will be a place for them in Lahaina.

Best way to interact with locals? I’m going to England, France, and Spain in late October/early November. One of the best memories I have from traveling was when I went to San Sebastián when I was 12 years old. I went into a small store. The two cashiers (probably owners) were some ladies in their 60s. They asked me how I spoke Spanish so well considering I was from the US. The…