What's Giving Us Hope? | Funny Old World with Juliet Kinsman
…SOLUTIONS-LED STORYTELLING IN TRAVEL is giving us hope.
Listen to this special episode of Juliet Kinsman's podcast Funny Old World, recorded from her keynote at the British Guild of Travel Writers' Better World Symposium: available on Apple, Spotify and on YouTube.
Juliet Kinsman has spent three decades travelling the world as a journalist — and she's done it with her eyes, and heart, wide open. In this episode, recorded from her keynote in London, she takes us through the moments that stopped her in her tracks: a fig tree in Langkawi that unlocked the meaning of keystone species. A Maldivian reef that made coral bleaching visceral. But this isn't just a travel writer’s memoir. It's a manifesto for anyone who believes that storytelling — done with integrity, curiosity and genuine lived experience — is one of the most powerful tools we have for shifting behaviour and building a more sustainable world.
Juliet explores why the word "storytelling" has been co-opted by marketing departments, why AI will never replace human authority, and how travel writers can function less like documentarians and more like agents of change. She calls for fair-trade journalism, coopetition between writers, and a renewed commitment to amplifying voices that don't have big PR machines behind them.
If you care about sustainable travel, impact-led communications, regenerative tourism or the future of meaningful media — this one's for you. Just watch out for those Passport Bros… What are those? Listen in and find out… A must-listen if you’re anyone sharing stories from your travels.
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A big thank you to Jon Weeks and Mark Machado podcast producer at 11-29 Media, and of course the British Guide of Travel Writers for letting me share these thoughts https://bgtw.org/
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