{"id":2413,"date":"2022-05-08T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2022-05-13T20:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:40:01","slug":"living-with-locals-the-next-big-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Living with locals&#8221;, the next big thing !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"700\" data-id=\"2430\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-4-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-4-1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Travelling post-pandemic era has led most of this world\u2019s globetrotters seeking to alternative kinds of vacation experiences, those ones with a real sense of \u201creturning to the basics\u201d &amp; re-establishing our connection both with Nature &amp; other Human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes with no surprise that most of the tourism professionals, nowadays, are required to focus their travel services on challenges such as : supporting social communities, volunteering in helping the environment\u2019s recovery, animals interacting, eco-friendly moving, slow eating &amp; \u201cas locals are living\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About this last one.. seems that travelling is no longer all about visiting a country, posting pictures on famous monuments, dining in a touristic restaurant &amp; returning to a hotel\u2019s room.. Actually, travelling today is nothing like that..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLiving with locals\u201d enables travelers to feel welcomed, in a totally new environment (whether a private house, a terrace, a garden &#8211; or even better, a kitchen) ! Having the chance to interact with locals in their daily life, being a part of their activities &amp; entertainment will make travelers feel not just as \u201cvisitors\u201d, but more as \u201clong time, no see\u201d family members ! They will make one more step ahead &amp; be proud to introduce their \u201cexpanded family members\u201d to their culture, life style, traditions, gastronomy, language, sayings &amp; jokes of their homeland !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the \u201ckey\u201d in living with locals is.. sharing ! Best part comes when travelers share stories of their own home-countries, showing them pictures of their dearest people waiting back home, even cooking a typical dish of their respective culinary origins. And then, who knows ? Locals may feel challenged to return the trip !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seriously now, how many hotels do we know that can offer amenities (or better.. benefits) such as life-time overseas friendships ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>See the gallery <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"2431\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-7-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-7-1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" data-id=\"2394\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-1-300x196.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"270\" data-id=\"2395\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-ACLP-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-ACLP-1.png 510w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-ACLP-1-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"2397\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-3-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-3-1.webp 561w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-3-1-300x193.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"2399\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Cooking_class-ACLP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Cooking_class-ACLP-1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Cooking_class-ACLP-1-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"472\" data-id=\"2400\" src=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-5-1.jpg 760w, https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/living-with-locals-5-1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling post-pandemic era has led most of this world\u2019s globetrotters seeking to alternative kinds of vacation experiences, those ones with a real sense of \u201creturning to the basics\u201d &amp; re-establishing our connection both with Nature &amp; other Human. It comes with no surprise that most of the tourism professionals, nowadays, are required to focus their travel services on challenges such as : supporting social communities, volunteering in helping the environment\u2019s recovery, animals interacting, eco-friendly moving, slow eating &amp; \u201cas locals are living\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; About this last one.. seems that travelling is no longer all about visiting a country, posting pictures on famous monuments, dining in a touristic restaurant &amp; returning to a hotel\u2019s room.. Actually, travelling today is nothing like that.. \u201cLiving with locals\u201d enables travelers to feel welcomed, in a totally new environment (whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[46,49,59],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evis-blog","tag-hawaii","tag-island","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripoutsidethebox.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}