A surprising amenity that’s growing at certain luxury resorts around the world is not bath products or your sheets thread counts. It’s chickens, and goats, and vegetables and orchards – In other words, farm life. And it’s surprising how many travelers are interested – eager – to tour and even pitch in at these working farms, a sort of multi-acre answer to the rooftop gardens and living walls at urban hotels. 

In this episode, host Rebecca Tobin and hospitality editor Christina Jelski talk to Kurt Bjorkman, chief operating officer of the Ranch at Laguna Beach in California and Sarah Fazendin, founder of Videre Travel. You’ll hear from our discussion, it’s an area where several trends are intersecting: Foodie culture, wellness and outdoor life.

Episode sponsor: 

This episode is sponsored by Windstar Cruises https://www.windstarcruises.com

Related reports: 

Agricultural tourism is a growing trend https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Focus-on-Hotels-2023-Growing-trend-Agricultural-tourism

Our guests:

The Ranch at Laguna Beach https://www.theranchlb.com/

Videre Travel https://videretravel.com/

A surprising amenity that’s growing at certain luxury resorts around the world is not bath products or your sheets thread counts. It’s chickens, and goats, and vegetables and orchards – In other words, farm life. And it’s surprising how many travelers are interested – eager – to tour and even pitch in at these working farms, a sort of multi-acre answer to the rooftop gardens and living walls at urban hotels. In this episode, host Rebecca Tobin and hospitality editor Christina Jelski talk to Kurt Bjorkman, chief operating officer of the Ranch at Laguna Beach in California and Sarah Fazendin, founder of Videre Travel. You’ll hear from our discussion, it’s an area where several trends are intersecting: Foodie culture, wellness and outdoor life.
Episode sponsor: 
This episode is sponsored by Windstar Cruises <a href="https://www.windstarcruises.com">https://www.windstarcruises.com</a>
Related reports: 
Agricultural tourism is a growing trend <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Focus-on-Hotels-2023-Growing-trend-Agricultural-tourism">https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Focus-on-Hotels-2023-Growing-trend-Agricultural-tourism</a>
Our guests:
The Ranch at Laguna Beach <a href="https://www.theranchlb.com/">https://www.theranchlb.com/</a>
Videre Travel <a href="https://videretravel.com/">https://videretravel.com/</a>

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors explore ideas, share experiences and provide insight into what they’ve uncovered while reporting on some of the biggest trends in travel.

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors explore ideas, share experiences and provide insight into what they&rsquo;ve uncovered while reporting on some of the biggest trends in travel.

Hosted by Rebecca Tobin, managing editor of Travel Weekly

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Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors take a deep dive into the biggest travel story of the week. 

In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about.  

You may be wondering: Why the Folo? Well, a folo -- f o l o -- is a journalism term, a kind of shorthand that basically means to follow a breaking news story with more in depth reporting and analysis. And at the Folo podcast, that's what we do. 

Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors take a deep dive into the biggest travel story of the week.&nbsp;
In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about. &nbsp;
You may be wondering: Why the Folo? Well, a folo -- f o l o -- is a journalism term, a kind of shorthand that basically means to follow a breaking news story with more in depth reporting and analysis. And at the Folo podcast, that's what we do.&nbsp;
Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

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