“Whether you plan to be relaxing on beaches, backpacking or exploring ancient ruins, all of these wonderful things can be done more consciously and with no added stress,” says Emma-Jane Truter, Co-Founder of Planit, a newly launched app that helps with the creation of conscious travel itineraries. According to Truter, conscious travelling requires you to be more aware of the impact that travel has on the environment, the local communities and the local economy of the location you are visiting. Another form of respect when traveling is to commit to eating local food, run by local people and by supporting other locally run businesses when shopping.