The Slow Travel Journal
The Slow Travel Journal
Notes on slow travel: long journeys, quiet places, and the case for taking your time.
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What the railways do not tell you about your Interrail pass
The companies that own Interrail are the same ones that decide what it is worth on their trains. Reservation quotas, a low-cost brand that refuses it, and an operator where a first class pass buys you standard class.
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Missed your connection? There is a rule almost nobody mentions
European railways have an agreement that puts you on the next train at no extra cost when you miss a connection. It is not a legal right, it is barely advertised, and 88% of travellers have never heard of it.
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Tourism Marketing Without Social Media: Answers to the Questions We Keep Hearing
Direct answers to what tourism marketers keep asking about burnout, ROI, old footage, idle screens, and reach, without another feed to feed.
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The Cheapest Channel You'll Ever Launch Is the One You've Already Filmed
Most tourism organizations are sitting on hours of long-form footage that were produced once, watched briefly, and never used again. Turning that into an always-on channel costs almost nothing, because the hard part is already done.
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The Most Underused Screen in Travel Is the One Everyone Is Already Staring At
Two hours until the next ferry. The departure screen said so in five seconds and then had nothing left to say.
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Nobody Leans Back for a Reel
Almost all destination marketing is built for a phone held six inches from a face. There is a different kind of attention only the big screen ever gets to earn.
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What If Your Destination's Marketing Didn't Need Feeding Every Day?
Most tourism marketing runs on a content calendar that never actually ends. This is what it would look like to build something once instead.
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The Problem With Measuring a Destination in Likes
A like costs someone a quarter of a second and proves nothing about whether they will ever get on a plane.
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Why Tourism Boards Are Quietly Burning Out on Social Media
Somewhere between the fourth trend of the month and the follower count that never quite catches up, the exhaustion becomes hard to ignore.
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Italy's Scenic Trains Deserve the Slow Treatment
The Bernina Express and the Cinque Terre coastal line already draw people to windows. Nobody has left the camera running for the whole ride.
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Iceland's Ring Road, at a Slower Pace
A single road circles the whole island. We have not filmed it yet, but we would like to.
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The Best Slow-TV Train Journeys in the World
A short list of the long train rides worth leaving on all day, from Norway's mountains to Japan's coastlines.
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What a Slow-Travel Channel Actually Looks Like: A Note for Tourism Boards
Not a 30-second ad. Not a highlight reel. A channel that just keeps playing, the way the place actually feels.
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How to Watch Slow Travel TV on the Big Screen (Right Now)
The dedicated app for Apple TV, Android and Roku is on its way. Until then, here is how to get any channel onto the biggest screen in the room today.
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Digital Detox Television: Why "Boring" TV Is Having a Moment
A whole genre of television now offers less: no plot to follow, nothing to finish. That is exactly the point.
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Train Otaku: Inside Japan's Culture of Watching the Rails
Japan has a word for people who watch trains for the pure pleasure of it. It is where our train channel gets its name.
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The Birthplace of Slow TV: How Norway Started It All
In 2009, a Norwegian broadcaster aired a train ride start to finish. Nobody expected it to work.
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What slow travel really means
Slow travel is less about where you go and more about how long you let yourself look.
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Why our journeys run an hour or more
A minute of scenery is a postcard. An hour of it is a place you can breathe in.
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The €49 Deutschlandticket: easy to start, hard to stop
Germany's flat-rate rail pass is a bargain. Getting off it, at least when it launched, was the tricky part.
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