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Issue · August 2026Field notes on regenerative travelVol. I

Magazine

An evolving archive of reporting, essays and dispatches from the places, makers and ideas shaping a more regenerative way to travel.

Wellness · Design & Culture · Food · Impact

The Lead · Design & Culture

Nature Weave, on the Sand: Inside Jia CURATED 2026

Bali's largest design festival trades a convention floor for a stretch of open coastline, and asks a philosophy of balance to hold together 250 brands and a river running through the site.

Words Regenerative Travel·12 August 2026·6 min read

In this issue

19 stories

Wellness

The Wellness Science of Slow Travel — How Land, Culture, and Stillness Restore Us

Attention restoration theory, polyvagal science, and Blue Zone belonging — how a growing set of regenerative destinations offer three physiologically distinct pathways back to a rested nervous system.

Maria Fernanda Maldonado·24 July 2026

Impact

Julia Watson on Indigenous Technologies, Climate Futures, and Why the Next 25 Years Matter

From Bangladesh's floating farms to Micronesia's tidal fish traps, designer Julia Watson makes the case that ancestral water technologies are our most urgent resource for climate-resilient cities.

Amanda Ho·14 July 2026

Feature · Impact

Regenerative Agriculture Tourism: The Ground Beneath the Table

From an Alentejo cork-oak estate to a Sumba permaculture plot, member farms are turning the working farm stay into a blueprint for regenerative agriculture tourism.

Regenerative Travel·14 July 2026·11 min read

Impact

The Architecture of a Living Coast

Maria Fernanda Maldonado·13 July 2026

Impact

From Extraction to Regeneration: A Conversation with Urbanist Tony Cho

Amanda Ho·8 July 2026

Wellness

What Bob Thurman Knew About Letting Sacred Places Change

Amanda Ho·18 June 2026

Travel Guide

The Asia Issue: How Heritage and Regeneration Meet

From the Himalayas to the Ganges, the rainforests of Langkawi to the ikat looms of Sumba — how member properties across Asia express regeneration as a centuries-old practice.

Impact

The Underwater Room Redefining Regenerative Luxury

7 June 2026

Design & Culture

The World's Highest Art Biennale Returns to Ladakh This August

20 May 2026

Design & Culture

Kasbah du Toubkal: Rising Stronger After the Earthquake

18 March 2026

Food

A Living Blueprint for Permaculture in Tourism

25 February 2026

Impact

Mountain Retreats in Reverence to the Earth and Climate

14 January 2026

Impact

Xigera: The Love Letter to Botswana

In the heart of the Okavango Delta, a regenerative safari lodge where contemporary African art, 92% solar-hybrid power, and Batswana stewardship redefine what luxury can mean.

Sarah Vockins·5 January 2026

Travel Guide

The Art of Slow Cruising in India

Aboard Antara Luxury River Cruises on the Ganges — slow travel through Bengal's ghats, weaving villages and river ecology, connecting communities unseen for a century.

Anna Long·5 January 2026

Feature · Travel Guide

Taíba: Where Wind, Waves, and Community Shape an Authentic Paradise

On Brazil's northern coast, a fishing village turned global wind-sports destination — and how Saline Taíba, with 95% local staffing, is proving that growth and authenticity can coexist.

Anna Long·5 January 2026·10 min read