When traveling to other countries, more and more travelers are concerned with traveling in a way that supports sustainability. Sustainable travel means supporting and protecting the local culture and environment of the places you visit. Travelers have a responsibility to respect the places they visit and to help promote economic development by supporting local businesses and communities.
If you travel by yourself, you have better control over your actions and the way in which you travel. You have more say in where you stay, where you shop, where you eat, and how you travel through the communities. By choosing to stay in locally owned and run hotels and by eating in locally owned and run eateries, you are supporting local businesses and the local economy. When traveling, you want to have a positive impact on the local communities; you don’t want the locals to resent you.
When traveling in a tour, it is your responsibility to make sure that you choose a company that upholds these standards. There are many tour companies nowadays that support sustainable travel and have tours dedicated to volunteering in and supporting the local communities they visit. To find out if a company is eco-friendly, their website should have information about this in their “About” section. If a tour company is truly dedicated to this form of travel, it will be easy to find their information on this subject.
Companies like Eurocamp, Expert Africa, Gap Adventures, Intrepid Travel, and Responsible Travel offer eco-friendly tours that are designed to put money back into the communities that they visit. Contiki Tours do not normally make the lists for tour companies that are eco-friendly, but reviews of Contiki Tours normally speak about their camping and budget style trips being somewhat eco-friendly and their company appears to be more concerned with sustainable travel now.
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