Welcome to Head Abroad

Head Abroad is a project built to connect and unify the worlds of travel and journalism. The project offers a new perspective on travel blogs, shifting the focus to the locals who welcome tourists and introducing their stories as inhabitants and representation of their cultures first, hosts and guides second.

Head Abroad: a bridge between locals and tourists

Head Abroad also aims at offering a space to all those “normal people” who have a lot to say, yet no space to do so.

As the time passes, pictures lose colours, their corners get nibbled, and the landscapes we once remembered neatly slowly fade away, becoming less visible, less present, less ours.
And as people lose memory, we daily try to find ways to keep moments alive, often relying on something that can relive vividly each moment. We try to bring back every memory, as we’re there, once again. Photos, videos, recordings, pages, art: every mean is an occasion to leave a sign in the world, and in due time I return to you nostalgically.

The goal is in fact that of defining profiles of those normal, boring people no one ever stops to listen, whose stories are however not only worth of attention, but that also naturally carry the representation of their ancestors, cultures and traditions. This, representing individuals from all over the world, whose features naturally and harmoniously portray a representation of their own country to the outside world.

With a shift of focus from the what to the who, this project aims at creating a space for those flamboyant nobodies whose memorable stories deserve a place to be discovered, read and re-read, understood and remembered.

Through words, today, Head Abroad offers a virtual place to people to narrate their stories.

Different yet the same

At Head Abroad, the focus is that of representing diversity and uniqueness throughout the world, with an eye on what unites people despite being culturally and physically apart.

Despite our differences, we feel the same emotions and share the same love for the beauty of things. We suffer the same way, we get angry the same way, …

The raw, honest and often brutal life around the world. The charm and secrecy of the beauty of the world.

Internationally Local

From the remote corners of the Gobi Desert to the cinematic San Francisco, from the charming souks of Marrakech to the whimsical streets of Tokyo. There are voices that have never been heard, eyes that have never been looked into, memories that would otherwise be forgotten: preventing people’s stories to disappear from our minds was once a mere passion, now Head Abroad’s mission.

At Head Abroad we aspire at becoming a bridge between people living in a country and those arriving as tourists to the same. Bringing people’s records to life through the narration of their story, we aim at offering a new perspective on cities, towns and cultures, trying to introduce a place from the inside and through an inner eye. In this way, not only the authentic information collected respect the locals and their traditions, but it also portrays a real, solid connection between tourists and locals.

Sustainable Tourism from the inside

Traveling is one of the best passion one could have, but when it becomes oblivious, uneducated and uncontrolled, it leaves an unimaginable mark on local communities. Head Abroad wants to guarantee that tourism transforms from a potentially harmful, unconscious and indiscriminate practice, to a benefit for local communities, the environment and traditions, hence switching from a negative impact to a sustainable resource. In order to achieve this goal, we aim at sharing foreign cultures through truthful portrayal of communities and traditions.

An experience that connects locals and foreigners, yesterday, today and tomorrow

At Head Abroad, we want to make a big impact on tourism today, making it a sustainable practice to maintain countries’ history from yesterday, to guarantee the everlasting existence of cultures and tourism tomorrow.

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