Step Up Travel,
www.stepuptravel.org, is an up and coming resource for travelers looking for authentic/cultural experiences with Brazilian local people. The website is essentially a travel classifieds designed to connect travelers directly with local people. You can rent apartments, contact Portuguese teachers, Samaba dance teachers, assorted Brazilian music teachers, all kinds of sports and recreation, and more. This site was designed by two medical students who have extensively traveled and found it difficult to connect with local people and genuinely experience culture and learn language, dance, music, sports, while traveling. The founders of the site are very responsive at
info@stepuptravel.org
Step Up Travel, www.stepuptravel.org, links you directly to local people offering cultural activities and services in a way that will enrich your travels. You can also find listings for many great apartment rental options. Why Step Up Travel Classifieds? This is an indepdendent travel website that is about People to People Travel rather than Person to Agency to Tourism. Travelers using the website are will find genuine local people with a world of culture, experience, and talent to share; and the people posting ads are local people using the website to meet travelers and generate supplemental income. This is a great connection and a vital model for travel in Brazil. Some of the listings that can be found on Step Up Travel Classifieds, Brazil are:
... read moreLET'S CREATE A WORLD WHERE TRAVEL EMPOWERS LOCAL PEOPLE- S.T.E.P. UP! Sustainable Travel that Empowers People www.stepuptravel.org Step Up Travel is the only travel classified site created to empower local people by making it easy and free to create traveler oriented microenterprises that we travelers can use to connect with local people, culture, and authentic activities. This idea began when Scott and I, both medical students, met working in a public emergency hospital in downtown Rio de Janeiro. It was there, in the midst of intense health care chaos, that we saw one another's true colors and beliefs which built a friendship leading to several years of brainstorming and work to create Step Up Travel. We deeply love traveling and interacting with local people. In fact, I have learned many of life's truths and seen so
... read more / Step Up Travel is a Global Network for Travelers, established to address the needs of a world that suffers from broadening financial inequality. It also offers a more rigorous virtual global forum through which people can come together to address the needs of small communities across the world. Step Up Travel was created to be the meeting ground where travelers connect with local people who want to offer their own services and goods. The traveler is more authentically immersed in the destination country, its culture, and its people, while the local people advertising their services can gain from self-employment. So much commercial tourism stands in the way of interesting cultural exchange between traveling parties and local people. It stands not only as a cultural barrier, controlled by large global companies, but also an economic
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