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In this article, Ashish Dutta introduces five travel habits that can “transform your travel experience — shed off the tag of a ‘tourist’ and saunter around as an enlightened eco-traveller”

Habit 1. Travel to Discover

The greatest impediment to fun is the blinkers of attitude most tourists put on, almost unknowingly. Leave all attitudes behind and set out with an open mind to discover. If you are amid nature, make her your best friend, and she will unravel her secrets to you.

Habit 2. Be Invisible

If you are travelling to the seabird nesting island in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia, you shall be instructed how to be invisible and not disturb the life flow of the birds.

Habit 3. Less is More

As a matured traveller, you protect nature as well as celebrate it at the same time. You participate in its conservation. Be creative to consume less and have more fun. Trek up a hill at your own pace instead of vrooming in a vehicle. No other feeling of satisfaction can ever match the sense of accomplishment when (even huffing and puffing) you conquer even a modest mound. Read more

What are YOUR best eco-travel tips? What do you do before, during and after your trip to leave a positive impact on the people and places you visit? Share your comments and suggestions here, or send us your stories!