BRIDGES by RARE 2024, hosted at The Roseate, New Delhi, marked a pivotal three-day conference promoting slow and conscious travel. An annual event organized by RARE, BRIDGES strives to position travel as a ‘force for good’, future ready and committed to planet sensitive tourism.
The conference emphasized sustainable and responsible travel, featuring success stories from small, owner-run hotels and experience curators.
In a market befuddled with boutique hotels and luxury travel, BRIDGES for Conscious Travel 2024 remained focused on telling the story of destination hotels through the lens of sustainable travel, community inclusion and environment sensitivity, stepping up to account for the event emissions. The conference aimed to be carbon-neutral, with NettZero Environmental Advisory Technologies Pvt. Ltd. overseeing the reduction, audit and offsetting of emissions. A total of 66 tCO2e was offset by investing in vetted registries such as bio-based construction and biomass energy.
A by-invite-only event BRIDGES gathered together a diverse group of delegates - international promoters, destination management companies, travel designers, media, and expatriates, with over 65% endorsing sustainable travel as the future of tourism. The agenda included panel discussions, workshops, and presentations, all designed to educate and inspire delegates.
BRIDGES 2024 was an experience that included art walks, Delhi city walks, craft displays, yoga, chanting, meditation sessions, and screening of award-winning film as highlights. RARE’s Conscious Travel Awards was hosted to celebrate outstanding achievements in sustainability, service, and design under the categories of A Hero’s Journey, Best Destination Story, Best Hotelier and Best Hotel.
We are thrilled to announce the next edition of BRIDGES for Conscious Travel 2025, scheduled to coincide with the perfect time for study and review – April 3, 4, 5. Calling all change-makers and worshippers of transformational and slow travel to save the date and register their interest with their partner DMCs in India and Nepal.
BRIDGES for Conscious Travel 2024 was a conference that included art walks, Delhi city walks, craft displays, yoga, chanting, meditation sessions, and screening of award-winning film as highlights. RARE’s Conscious Travel Awards was hosted to celebrate outstanding achievements in sustainability, service, and design under the categories of A Hero’s Journey, Best Destination Story, Best Hotelier and Best Hotel.
Craft Wall created a sense of the destination the craft originated from, through sight, touch, smell - the idea was to build a sensory memory.
Catalyst Talks, Panel Discussions and Workshops: Held by industry experts and individuals who have been working towards conservation, a conscious and community inclusive travel.
A Walk-through of Himalayan Landscapes, Watercolour paintings by Kunal Batra
RARE’s Conscious Travel Awards were held on the second day of BRIDGES 2024, with awards presented in the following 4 categories:
‘Tiger Land’, courtesy, Amit Sankhla, Jamtara Wilderness Camp: The film explores two passionate activists separated by fifty years, who made it their mission to save the beloved and often misunderstood majestic tigers.
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