How often do you drop into a city on a short break and then three days later find that you’re flying home feeling as though you’ve only been able to sample a snapshot of life there? We have definitely done this over the years, and though returning to a place offers us a chance to explore more, we see the benefits of longer stays in a place where we can not only take in more of its culture and atmosphere but find ways to connect more with our destination so our visit contributes to the local community. Tourism bringing benefit to the local community is very much at the heart of sustainable travel in the 2020s (long gone is the purely “green travel” thinking of the industry in days gone by). So it was with this impetus that we recently enjoyed a more sustainable city break to Graz, in Austria.
