Tag: sustainable travel
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Traveling Hawai‘i With Intention
A Journey Through Maui & the Big Island I just returned from an immersive research trip in Maui and the Big Island— touring 17 resorts , exploring Kaʻanapali, Kapalua, Wailea, and Hawai‘i Island itself. I went in with a clear lens: sustainability, community connection, and meaningful local immersion. What I found was not just luxury, but a deeper story…
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Sustainable Impact Summit Lake Louise
How we Travel for Good This past month, I had the privilege of attending the inaugural Virtuoso Sustainable Impact Summit held in Lake Louise, in the heart of Banff National Park. The turquoise waters and stunning mountains did not just provide breath-taking scenery, but also an important reminder of what’s at stake when we talk about mindful travel…
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Loving our Favorite Places from Afar
How do we support the places we love when a crisis hits? It is peak foliage peeping season and one of my favorite places in the past to peep has been in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Asheville, North Carolina. In fact, I have sent clients there to visit and experience all that…
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My 2024 Virtuoso Travel Week Takeaways
This year I returned to Virtuoso Travel Week in Vegas for a deep dive on Luxury travel, redefined. As you may already know, Virtuoso travel week brings together more than 2,000 hotels, resorts, tour operators, and more – all in the name of helping advisors like myself to provide one-of-a-kind travel experiences are for my…
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An unforgettable journey through the Peruvian Amazon
Imagine waking up to the sounds of the jungle, with the mist rising off the water and the calls of tropical birds filling the air…. I recently had the opportunity to meander along the Marañon and Amazon Rivers in the Peruvian Amazon on a luxury river cruise with Aqua Expeditions. It had long been on…
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Beyond Safari in South Africa: food, wine, art and fashion and beautiful scenery!
African Adventures Part 4 When people think of South African travel, they often think of the traditional safari: looking for big game and staying in a safari camp. While South Africa offers some of the best safari experiences (stay tuned for future blog post), it also offers some of the most amazing food, wine, art,…
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Southern African Adventures Part 1: Journey to Jo’Burg
Johannesburg has a bad reputation; not totally undeserved mind you. However, when traveling to South Africa or anywhere in Southern Africa, chances are very high you will land in this “City of Gold” or i-Goli. Many people choose to skip their visit to this city in favor of the wilder-side of South Africa. However, if…
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Top Virtuoso Travel Week Takeaways
While I have been back from Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas for a few weeks now, it has taken me this long just to process all the information I gathered and follow-up with the new connections I made so that I can actually share some of my whirlwind week with all of you. Virtuoso Travel Week…
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An Epic Adventure to Southern Africa
I recently returned from an epic trip and return “home” to a place near and dear to my heart: South Africa (and surrounds). I had lived and worked there on two separate occasions and stayed with two different families, living as their “daughter” in both…and I had not returned for 16 years. It wasn’t because…
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Ngizohamba ikhaya lami……
I have always believed that travel connects us to people and places we otherwise would not have known and it has the ability to impact and shape us in life changing ways. This belief is actually in my mission statement for Heather Lane Adventures: To create and design purpose-driven travel that connects clients to different…
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