Alaska meaningful travel Alaska Meaningful Travel is a way to find the meaning of the places you use during your travels here. Travel is not just about having fun. It can also be a way to challenge preconceptions, lift your imagination, prepare oneself for a more important future, and help others. On your trip here, bring to bear all your personal resources for good: time, intelligence, passion, skill, and money.
The everyday choices we make, however innocent they seem, form the larger world in which we live. Live the world you envision into being!
Use this travel Passport to enter Ratings, Information or Concerns for the places you visit. Return it to Qupqugiaq Inn and we’ll enter the comments on the Alaska Meaningful Travel site. If you prefer go directly to the website (www.implications.org/ alaska) and enter it yourself.
How it works Rating Information Concern Request Action
Have you visited a business or any other place in Alaska that intrigues you, either because it is inspiring or because it falls short of what it could be? Help it become a better version of itself by adding Information, Ratings, Concerns, or Actions.
Information We can’t make informed decisions without knowing the facts. Information is a place for hard-to-find facts about matters of importance. Sharing Information does not have to be adversarial. Information is a step in helpful collaboration towards building a better place. Ratings Ratings is a place to think about the way this place succeeds in the full range of Implications of what it does. It is not meant for judging according to conventional standards, such as how it satisfies the desires of the customer. For that, go to Yelp or Tripadvisor! Concerns Concerns is a way to arrive at a Vision for a deeper place, one that addresses real, underlying needs and contributes to a better world. High rated Concerns can be turned into Requests by Coordinators. Action Approach any stakeholder in the place (owner, manager, staff, customer) with a gentle and thoughtful yet direct approach. Collaborative, Provocative Actions can be scheduled to achieve a critical mass, and are publicized in VisionaryNews.
How to find the meaning Every business has an immediate and a deeper meaning. The standard measures (such as price, cleanliness and amenities) are of secondary importance. Use conventional review sites to report on those. We need another measure for what is essential. The deeper level includes original causes, indirect effects, and personal motivations. Purpose What is the overall goal and underlying purpose? Is it just to make money? Does the place consider the needs of all stakeholders—employees, community, suppliers, consumers, and the environment, as well as stockholders? Value What is the value of the product or service? Does it appeal to desire, lust, fear, envy, or violence? Does it create artificial needs? Or does it serve the common good, and improve quality of life? Practices Is it human-scale? Are interactions personal and human? Does it depend on irrational or manipulative advertising? Are fulfilling, meaningful jobs available? Justice Are prices affordable or reasonable? Are workers paid fairly? Are producers paid fairly? Are profits distributed fairly? Are they used (at least partly)for the common good? Impact What is the effect on the well-being of customers? Does it foster meaningful relationships? Does it support local artists, businesses, or organizations? Does it promote local purchasing? Does it protect the environment and natural resources, at any stage including origin, transport, and locally?
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“A man who stays the night in a strange place is still a member of the human community, and still needs company. There is no reason why he should creep into a hole, and watch TV alone, the way he does in a roadside motel.� A Pattern Language
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain
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“Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.� Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Two roads diverged in a woods, and I –, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost
Qupqugiaq Inn is honored to offer you this Invitation Travel not only for pleasure but also meaning. Fight the mass travel industry. Join others in building a more thoughtful world. Be accountable for the places you use. Invite a place to participate in Alaska Meaningful Travel. Principles for Shared Humanity → Learn to recognize humanity. → Stop seeking the single true movement. → Don’t claim that your organization is superior to others. → Find the underlying truth in ideologies that you oppose. → Focus on what is good in each organization. → Join hands across ideologies.
To accept, go to www.implications.org/alaska Step by step improve the picture of your everyday life
→ Add the places you used on your trip. → Join the places you use in reguarly at home. Track them at My Implications. → Directly add Information, Ratings, Concerns, and Actions. more you can do: → Become a Coordinator of a type of organization in your city to develop a Vision and schedule Provocative, Collaborative DirectAction. → Create a Visionary Society Topic
“The meaning of man’s life lies in his perfecting the universe. He has to distinguish, gather, and redeem the sparks of holiness scattered throughout the darkness of the world.” Abraham Heschel Alaska Meaningful Travel is a project of Visionary Society www.visionarysociety.org