Primary Touchpoint Two
ETHICAL TRAVEL GUIDE
Ethical Travel Guide
Goal is to spread awareness to tourists about how their actions impact the land around them along with teaching them about Hawaiian culture and background. Using storytelling to communicate, displaying insights from locals and shows tourists a different perspective. Show empathy for Hawaiians who have lost so much to tourism. This book is designed to encourage people change their traveling habits and give back to the communities they visit in positive ways.
Tourism Impacts
Help people reflect on their choices, talk about water increase price of living, rehousing, homelessness, etc
Culture
What is appropriated and what is real, historical background, agriculture, & spiritual connections
History
Colonization, government being overthrown, tensions & suppression, religion, and extraction
Language
Background, consonants, vocab, structure, how to introduce yourself, history, simple phrases
Environmental Issues/Impacts
Water shortage/drought, killing agricultural land, flower crisis, invasive species and loss of wildlife
Giving Back (Voluntourism)
Provide opportunities for people to give back to the community and learns directly from locals
Supporting Locals
Food & coffee shops, individual shops or areas to shop, and locally sourced farmers markets
Impact Everywhere
Reflect on how changing actions when traveling can have a positive impacts anywhere people visit.
Language Impact Everywhere Back Cover
Tourism Impacts
Pages will split so people can flip through the different stories from an assortment of locals. This section emphasizes the local’s voices and perspectives that we miss as tourists. Showing people the opposite side will help them reflect on how their actions impact those around them.
Culture
History
Language
Culture
Uses the gate fold to demonstrate different sections of culture. Each side has separate focuses. One will display clothing, traditions, food, and dances. The other will talk about spiritual connection, farming practices, and animals. It will also highlight appropriation and how people can properly interact with natives.
Culture
History
This section showcases an accordion folding technique so people can walk through each era of history. As they unfold the paper they will reveal more and more pieces of Hawaiin history, learning about the hardships they fought through.
History
Layout with cutoff line where accordian pullout will be
Accordian tabs
Front Cover Overview
Displays a mini book in the middle to highlight different phrase and applicable vocab they can learn themselves. The paper surrounding the mini book will talk about the history of langauge and the basics of how it was
Language
Thesis: Ethical Travel Guide Back Cover
Layout
How layout looks with book in the middle
Environmental Issues
This section uses a flip book tabs to display the different types of envionment categories we should consider when traveling. Each flap is labled and unfolds to reveal more information, while all together they form waves of the ocean.
Fully closed tabs
Tabs fully open (under the tabs)
Tab Two
Tab Three
Tab Four
Culture Giving Back
This section has a popout box flaps that can all fold together into one sigular square. Each flap of the box shows a type of volunteering travelers can particpate in/try to give back to the community while traveling.
Layout without square opened
This content is displayed using two folding round tabs that overlap over each other. Both flaps fold out to show a seperate categories of activities and where to go locally to support the community while exploring.
Senior Thesis: Ethical Travel Guide
Layout with closed tabs
Layout with green tab unfolded
Layout with both tabs unfolded
Language
This section has it’s own pocket that holds a mini booklet/journal for tourists to write down their personal, unique experiences and preserve their knowledge. They can continue this journal series wherever they travel to next.
