Meet PureTravel
Sara White and Robert Ferguson are both seasoned travelers and travel bloggers, with decades of experience working in the travel and leisure sector, travel journalism, travel writing and front line conservation.
Sara White
Sara has 30 years’ experience working in long-haul travel and conservation. She’s not only journeyed across six continents and lived and worked in three, she also edited the magazine for a leading tour operator, worked in front line conservation and is a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographical Society in London.
Robert Ferguson
Robert has worked in special interest travel for over 30 years, running three specialist operators in Pakistan, Italy and the UK. He started as a mountain guide working in the Himalayas and is the author of Footprint Guides Nepal Handbook. He is member of The Explorers Club in New York and has spoken on conservation both here and at the RGS in London.
The PureTravel network of over 250 writers and contributors have helped turn PureTravel into the leading Travel Blog it is today.
The PureTravel Blog was planned in 1999. It was launched in 2009. In the intervening 10 years the attitudes of the travelling public changed thanks to a combination of the growth of budget airlines and the explosion of the internet.
In 1999 the package holiday was king thanks to the prices of scheduled airfares and the difficulty in finding and communicating with hotels and companies overseas.
The growth of the budget airlines changed this, allowing people to book cheap flights all over Europe. The internet then allowed them to book cheap hotels to stay in and the Build-your-own holiday concept had started.
In 10 years, the package holiday market had shrunk from over three-quarters of all travel to less than half. There was the need for information to help people formulate their travel plans and the PureTravel Blog was created to help fill this need.
PureTravel is a wealth of information published to help people find their way through the vast amount of information there is on the Internet. It is posted by travelers, operators, hotels, attractions and other businesses offering advice and suggestions. Some pay an admin fee to post their views on the Blog, Robert & Sara offer their experience and guidance for free
Copyright and Content
Our aim is to bring you useful and interesting content throughout the site and blog. We do ask that if you would like to use some of our blog content (as some of the tips and advice are very useful!) then please keep the content as originally written including links, credit PureTravel on your site and link back to us.
Also it would be great if you could drop us a quick email on admin@puretravel.com
