The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle – established 2016 – is a weekly show which helps travellers think about how our travels can be good for us and good for the world. We talk about how to make ethical decisions on our trips, sustainable and regenerative tourism, bringing back what we learn from the people and cultures we meet to improve our lives back home, and share the most memorable stories from travelling: fun, scary, educational and more. Most episodes include extracts from conversations with three different guests, centred on a particular topic, but you’ll also hear occasional deep dive interviews, recordings from the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, and Amanda’s own experiences from travelling past and present. In 2025, the podcast reached the one million download milestone, and will celebrate its 10th anniversary in March 2026.
You can listen to all the episodes directly in the player below, or find them at Apple Podcasts or on Spotify. To chat to Amanda or with other listeners, you can join the Thoughtful Travellers Facebook group or the Thoughtful Travellers LinkedIn group. If you enjoy reading travel books, you can join the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, and to read more thoughtful travel tales, you can subscribe to the Thoughtful Traveller Substack.
If you’re keen to be a guest on The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, please take a look at these guidelines.