Responsible Travel

Reading Time: 4 minutes Just a few minutes from Cusco’s main square, is one of the most important cafés in Peru. It doesn’t have Michelin stars, an extensive wine list, or a celebrity owner. But it’s got some of the happiest staff in the country. 

Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s not much to see out here. Rice paddies, villages, a few roadside stands selling fruit and eggs. You certainly wouldn’t expect a tourism project; a village-run community of homestays and activities for international travellers. But that’s exactly what you’ll find at Madi Valley.

Reading Time: 6 minutes “Please don’t walk around after dark,” Mohan, the village chief, tells us as he shows us around in the late afternoon sun. “We had an elephant come through last night.”

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you want to see the face of overtourism, take a plane to Phnom Penh and catch a bumpy five-hour bus to Sihanoukville – a once-sleepy town on a little peninsula in the Gulf of Thailand. Sihanoukville is the jewel of Cambodia’s tourism industry. Or at least it used to be.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Carbon offsetting is definitely having a moment. But two questions are always asked about it: what is it, and does it actually work?

Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re partnering with Offset Earth to create something different: we want to grow a travel-powered forest. And we want you to help us.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, at the 2019 UN Climate Conference, COP25, we made a historic commitment. A commitment in partnership with 500+ fellow B Corps to reach net zero by 2030.

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a trend that doesn’t get talked about much in travel brochures: as tourist numbers increase, particularly in developing countries, so do the number of orphanages. Not orphans, but orphanages.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Truly sustainable, responsible travel doesn’t start and end with the environment. It has a human face, too. One that’s all too easy to overlook.