Responsible Travel

Our partners are in dire straits. All of them rely on selling goods or services to the many travellers visiting their communities. The travellers who are now literally staying home.

Solidarity must be steeped in the desire to create long-term change. Here are some commitments we’re making as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement.

While the entire world unites under a shared fear, we must also remember to unite under a shared hope and a shared planet.

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. 

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.

“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.”

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.

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

We’re partnering with Ecologi to create something different: we want to grow a travel-powered forest. And we want you to help us.