TIMEOUT: Retracing your travel fingerprints

A series of eight questions that are designed to reduce your tourist fingerprints in the areas that you visit.

• Why do you travel?
  For what purpose are you travelling? To what degree are you sensitive to the place you are visiting? Are you running away from, or running to?

• How do you live?
  What kind of lifestyle do you follow? During you visit, how do you live in the host city? What indeed is your ecological impact?

• Where do you go?
  What places do you visit? What is the significance of those places? Historical? Natural? Urbane?

• How do you travel?
  What modes of transport do you use during your travel? What percentage of it is public transport? Do you use non-motorized transport?

• What do you buy?
  What kinds of goods do you buy? Are you aware of the nature of the raw material used in its preperation, or local/indeginous content of its manufacture?

• What do you do?
  What kinds of activities do you carry out during your travel? Do you do it alone? In groups?

• What do you take?
  What do you take with you when you travel? Is it necessary? Would it have any effect on the region you are travelling to?

• What do you leave behind?
  In terms of waste and other such material, what do you leave behind?