Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
How lightly can we travel to be more sustainable tourists?
With summer holidays fast approaching, many of us are planning trips across the UK or abroad to enjoy new cuisines, explore historic sites, and soak up the sun.
In our latest Sandbox ‘Extra’ episode, ‘Summer in the City’, this week’s FOMO5 features an insightful excerpt from Episode 10, ‘Sustainable Tourism: Travelling to a greener future.’ Hear from Lindsay Hawdon, former Sunday Times and Telegraph travel columnist, writer of fiction, and guest lecturer, on how tourists can travel sustainably and truly integrate into the places they visit.
Lindsay shared how the pandemic led residents in Bath to rediscover their city as tourists, saying: “A kind of strange thing happened during COVID in Bath in that local residents discovered the city as tourists themselves. You know, suddenly there were no tourists visiting and you were able to sort of fall back in love with your city as a tourist might.”
In this FOMO5, our regular host Andy Duncan also discusses some Buro Happold UK projects which you can visit this summer, from Mayfield Park in Manchester to Battersea Power Station, London. Read more about our projects by visiting the Buro Happold website.
Tune in to this week’s Sandbox FOMO5 for all the insights.
Subscribe to the whole series; Sometimes we’ll tackle a subject head on, sometimes a sideways view - but always with curiosity, expertise and maybe even a dash of humour.
This podcast series is brought to you by Buro Happold (https://buro.im/SandboxPodcast).
How lightly can we travel to be more sustainable tourists?
With summer holidays fast approaching, many of us are planning trips across the UK or abroad to enjoy new cuisines, explore historic sites, and soak up the sun.
In our latest Sandbox ‘Extra’ episode, ‘Summer in the City’, this week’s FOMO5 features an insightful excerpt from Episode 10, ‘Sustainable Tourism: Travelling to a greener future.’ Hear from Lindsay Hawdon, former Sunday Times and Telegraph travel columnist, writer of fiction, and guest lecturer, on how tourists can travel sustainably and truly integrate into the places they visit.
Lindsay shared how the pandemic led residents in Bath to rediscover their city as tourists, saying: “A kind of strange thing happened during COVID in Bath in that local residents discovered the city as tourists themselves. You know, suddenly there were no tourists visiting and you were able to sort of fall back in love with your city as a tourist might.”
In this FOMO5, our regular host Andy Duncan also discusses some Buro Happold UK projects which you can visit this summer, from Mayfield Park in Manchester to Battersea Power Station, London. Read more about our projects by visiting the Buro Happold website.
Tune in to this week’s Sandbox FOMO5 for all the insights.
Subscribe to the whole series; Sometimes we’ll tackle a subject head on, sometimes a sideways view - but always with curiosity, expertise and maybe even a dash of humour.
This podcast series is brought to you by Buro Happold (https://buro.im/SandboxPodcast).
