The Field Guide for Travelers
Who Refuse to Be Tourists
A label can’t make your trip responsible. A method can.
Eleven evidence-based pages that turn responsible travel into a method you can actually use.
By Steven Keen, MSc candidate in Responsible Tourism Management, GSTC- and ICRT-certified, based on Crete
A Look Inside
The Guide, Plus a Monthly Letter
Here’s the guide. It’s all yours. Once a month, I also write a letter from my tiny mountain village on Crete to travelers who refuse to be tourists. The thinking that didn’t fit in the guide, cited to the source.
No spam. Privacy Policy. No thanks, just the guide.
Where to Go from Here
How to Spot Greenwashing
The skill the guide is a portable version of—one test, and the court case that proves it works.
What Is Responsible Tourism?
The definition every test in the guide rests on—and what actually reduces a trip’s footprint.
Responsible Tourism on Crete
The same tests run against one real island, where the answers stop being hypothetical.
Explore Our Companion Resources
- softtravel.com The trip shape this instrument keeps implying—fewer places, longer stays—stated as an idea, with its newness admitted. (opens in new tab)
- transformationaltourism.com How to build a trip so that change becomes likelier—without promising it, and without selling the promise. (opens in new tab)
- regenerativetravel.org The same instrument aimed one rung higher: not “do no harm” but leave the place measurably better—and where that runs out. (opens in new tab)